Description
For terms see External morphology of Lepidoptera.
The wingspan is 80–180 mm for females and 70–150 mm for males.
Male. The fore wings are ground colour black. There are two green areas.The underside of the fore wing is green. The margin of the wing is black. The veins are black. There is a chain of little postdiscal internervular black spots on the wing. The hind wing inner part and the edge are black. The other part of the wing is green and contains some large, golden spots and two or more black spots. The underside of the hind wing is green.There are large, golden spots and three black spots. The inner edge is very hairy.
The abdomen is bright yellow. Head and thorax are black. The underside of thorax has two red tufts.
Female Ornithoptera chimaera is sexually dimorphic. The female is larger than the male. The ground colour of the female is dark-brown. There is a chain of white postdiscal spots on the fore wings, a discal chain and white subcostal spots . In the discal part of the hind wings there is a large, white area. The outer edge of this white area is yellow. Between the white part and the yellow part there is a chain of black spots.
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