Rajah Brooke's birdwing

Meaning

Noun

Trogonoptera brookiana (species), a birdwing butterfly of Asian rainforests.

Origin

Named by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.

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