Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

• It is one of only four insect species listed in CITES Appendix I, the category that bans international trade outright, which it entered in 1987; Papua New Guinea had already protected it by law since 1966.
• It was discovered in 1906 by Albert Stewart Meek, a collector working for Walter Rothschild, who named it in 1907 after Alexandra of Denmark; the first specimens were obtained by shooting them down with small shot, because they flew too high for nets.
• Its main threat is the conversion of lowland rainforest into oil palm plantations, and its entire range fits into a few hundred square kilometres.

Habitat and environment

Lowland rainforest of Oro Province, in Papua New Guinea

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Ornithoptera alexandrae

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.