Birdwing Butterflies of the World

Very good hardcover in dust jacket, in faded slipcase. Inner hinges starting.

A definitive monograph on the Birdwing Butterflies, the most exotic of all the groups of butterflies known to science. In a marriage of text and full color illustration over thirty species and 120 subspecies of the Troides, Ornithoptera and Trogonoptera butterflies are discussed. Over 300 actual-sized color plates show the true magnificence of these creatures. Illustrations also include examples of some of the different species of Aristolochia folige, fruits and flowers, the Birdwing food plant.