Biology:Parantica pedonga
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Parantica pedonga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Danaini |
| Subtribe: | Danaina |
| Genus: | Parantica |
| Species: | P. pedonga
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| Binomial name | |
| Parantica pedonga Fujioka, 1970
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Parantica pedonga, also known as the Pedong tiger or the Talbot's chestnut tiger is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in North-east India, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet.[1][2] It was described by Tomoo Fujioka in 1970. This species is monotypic.
Description
This species is similar to Parantica sita, but the sex brand does not extend to Vein 2. The hindwing stripe in space 1a is usually well developed in Parantica melaneus unlike in pedonga.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "Pedong Tiger (Parantica pedonga)" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/842142-Parantica-pedonga.
- ↑ "Parantica". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/parantica/#10576.
- ↑ "Parantica pedonga Fujioka, 1970 | Species" (in en). https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/276924.
- ↑ Io, Chou (1994). Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium.
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