Biology:Parantica

Short description: Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Parantica
Parantica aglea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subtribe:	Danaina
Genus:	Parantica Moore, 1880
Species
See text
Synonyms
Chittira Moore, [1880] Caduga Moore, 1882 Lintorata Moore, 1883 Ravadeba Moore, 1883 Bahora Moore, 1883 Phirdana Moore, 1883 Asthipa Moore, 1883 Mangalisa Moore, 1883 Caduga Moore, 1883 Badacara Moore, [1890] Chlorochropsis Rothschild, 1892 Miriamica Vane-Wright, Boppré & Ackery, 2002

Parantica, commonly called tigers, is an Old World genus of butterflies in subfamily Danainae of family Nymphalidae. They are found in southeastern Asia, Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Philippines . Many of these species are endemic to islands and considered endangered, vulnerable, or threatened according to the IUCN Red List. For other butterflies called tigers see the genus Danaus.

Parantica are large, slender, black and light blue or white butterflies. The body appears strikingly small and thin compared to the large wings.

Species

Species in alphabetical order:

• Parantica aglea (Stoll, 1782) – glassy (blue) tiger
• Parantica agleoides (C. & R. Felder, 1860) – dark glassy tiger
• Parantica albata (Zinken, 1831) – Zinken's tiger
• Parantica aspasia (Fabricius, 1787) – yellow glassy tiger
• Parantica cleona (Stoll, 1782)
• Parantica clinias (Grose-Smith, 1890) – New Ireland yellow tiger
• Parantica crowleyi (Jenner Weir, 1894) – Crowley's tiger
• Parantica dabrerai (Miller & Miller, 1978) – D'Abrera's tiger
• Parantica dannatti (Talbot, 1936) – Dannatt's tiger
• Parantica davidi (Schröder, 1976) – David's tiger
• Parantica fuscela (Parsons, 1989)
• Parantica garamantis (Godman & Salvin, 1888) – angled tiger
• Parantica hypowattan (Morishita, 1981) – Morishita's tiger
• Parantica kirbyi (Grose-Smith, 1894) – Kirby's tiger
• Parantica kuekenthali (Pagenstecher, 1896) – Kuekenthal's yellow tiger
• Parantica luzonensis (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
• Parantica marcia (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) – Biak tiger
• Parantica menadensis (Moore, 1883) – Manado tiger
• Parantica melaneus (Cramer, 1775) – chocolate tiger
• Parantica melusine (Grose-Smith, 1894)
• Parantica milagros (Schröder & Treadaway, 1880) – Milagros' tiger
• Parantica nilgiriensis (Moore, 1877) – Nilgiri tiger
• Parantica pedonga (Fujioka, 1970)
• Parantica philo (Grose-Smith, 1895) – Sumbawa tiger
• Parantica phyle (C. & R. Felder, 1863) – Felder's tiger
• Parantica pseudomelaneus (Moore, 1883) – Javan tiger
• Parantica pumila (Boisduval, 1859) – least tiger
• Parantica rotundata (Grose-Smith, 1890) – fat tiger
• Parantica schenkii (Koch, 1865)
• Parantica schoenigi (Jumalon, 1971) – Father Schoenig's chocolate
• Parantica sita (Kollar, 1844) – chestnut tiger
• Parantica sulewattan (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Bonthain tiger
• Parantica swinhoei (Moore, 1883) – Swinhoe's chocolate tiger
• Parantica taprobana (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Ceylon tiger
• Parantica tityoides (Hagen, 1890) – Sumatran chocolate tiger
• Parantica timorica (Grose-Smith, 1887) – Timor yellow tiger
• Parantica toxopei (Nieuwenhuis, 1969) – Toxopeus' yellow tiger
• Parantica vitrina (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
• Parantica wegneri (Nieuwenhuis, 1960) – Flores tiger
• Parantica weiskei (Rothschild, 1901) – Weiske's tiger

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1952310 entry