Troides (Troides) helena (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

Locality: Malaysia. Specimen delivered to Rich Kelson of Marine World as pupa under proper CITES and USDA permits. Recieved by R. Reed, 10 Spetember 1997.

DNA number FS-b-974.

Specimen used in studies by:

MS Caterino, RD Reed, MM Kuo and FAH Sperling, 2001. A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly Phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 50 (2001): 106-127).

EV Zakharov, MS Caterino and FAH Sperling, 2004. Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography, and divergence time estimates for swallowtail butterflies of the genus Papilio (lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 53 (2004): 193-215.

V Nazari, EV Zakharov and FAH Sperling, 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.

Simonsen TJ, Zakharov EV, Djernæs M, Cotton AM, Vane-Wright RI, Sperling FAH [2010]. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics (pre publication).

GenBank Accession Numbers for COI-COII AF170878, ND1 DQ351063, 16S DQ351084, EF1a AF173418, and Wingless AY569047.