Tirumala (butterfly)

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

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

Species

[edit]
Butterfly Caterpillar Name Common name Distribution
Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) forest monarch or beautiful tiger Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) African blue tiger Zimbabwe.
Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) scarce blue tiger India and Southeast Asia
Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) crow tiger Solomon Islands.
Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866) Sula Islands
Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) blue tiger South Asia and Southeast Asia
Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) dark blue tiger Sikkim, 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 tiger the Philippines to Australia
Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883 Visayan Islands, the Philippines
Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994 China.

References

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