Tirumala (butterfly)

Tirumala is a genus of brush-footed butterflies erected by Frederic Moore in 1880. Its species are distributed in Africa, Asia, and Australia.[1]

Tirumala
Tirumala septentrionis
Tirumala gautama
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subtribe: Danaina
Genus: Tirumala
Moore, [1880]
Synonyms
  • Melinda Moore, 1883
  • Elsa Honrath, 1892

Species

ButterflyCaterpillarNameCommon nameDistribution
Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880)forest monarch or beautiful tigerCameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847])African blue tigerZimbabwe.
Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877)scarce blue tigerIndia and Southeast Asia
Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976)crow tigerSolomon Islands.
Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866)Sula Islands
Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775])blue tigerSouth Asia and Southeast Asia
Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874)dark blue tigerSikkim, into Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Southeast Asia; Odisha; West Bengal, southern India, the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka
Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826)dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tigerthe Philippines to Australia
Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883Visayan Islands, the Philippines
Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994China.

References

  1. Savela, Markku (December 25, 2018). "Tirumala Moore, [1880]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  • Media related to Tirumala at Wikimedia Commons


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