| Southern tailed birdwing | |
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| Male, upperside | |
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| Female, upperside | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Ornithoptera |
| Species: | O. meridionalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Ornithoptera meridionalis (Rothschild, 1897)
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Ornithoptera meridionalis, the southern tailed birdwing, is the smallest species of the genus Ornithoptera. It is known from a handful of localities in southeast Papua, New Guinea (O. meridionalis meridionalis) and several localities along the south coast of Irian Jaya (O. meridionalis tarunggarensis).
The specific ephiphet meridionalis, means southern.
- ^ a b Böhm, M. (2018). "Ornithoptera meridionalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T15519A91163570. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T15519A91163570.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.