Biology:Tirumala (butterfly)

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Tirumala
Open wing Basking of Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) - Dark Blue Tiger (Female) WLB IMG 4025.jpg
Tirumala septentrionis
IMG4357 Burma Arakan State Tirumala Gautama Gautama male Tandwé City (7744866476).jpg
Tirumala gautama
Scientific classification e
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

Butterfly Caterpillar Name Common name Distribution
ProceedingsZSL1880Plate19, fig. 1, Tirumala formosa.jpg Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) forest monarch or beautiful tiger Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
African blue tiger (Tirumala petiverana).jpg Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) African blue tiger Zimbabwe.
IMG4357 Burma Arakan State Tirumala Gautama Gautama male Tandwé City (7744866476).jpg Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) scarce blue tiger India and Southeast Asia
Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) crow tiger Solomon Islands.
Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate78.JPG Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866) Sula Islands
Open wing nectering of Tirumala limniace Cramer, 1775 – Blue Tiger on Lantana camara flower WLB DSC 0131.jpg Tirumala limniace Cramer, 1775 – Blue Tiger caterpillar at Kannavam RF (3).jpg Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) blue tiger South Asia and Southeast Asia
Tirumala septentrionis Butler, 1874 – Dark Blue Tiger at Peravoor 2017 (4).jpg Tirumala septentrionis - Dark Blue Tiger life cycle caterpillar at Peravoor (61).jpg 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 Blue tiger 7th Brigade Park Chermside P1120145.jpg Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger the Philippines to Australia
Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate78.JPG Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883 Visayan Islands, the Philippines
Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994 China.

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1944174 entry