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 | |
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Tirumala septentrionis | |
Tirumala gautama | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subtribe: | Danaina |
Genus: | Tirumala Moore, [1880] |
Synonyms | |
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Species
editButterfly | Caterpillar | Name | Common name | Distribution |
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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- ^ Savela, Markku (December 25, 2018). "Tirumala Moore, [1880]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
External links
editMedia related to Tirumala at Wikimedia Commons