Danaus melanippus

Black veined tiger
	Topside
	Underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Danaus
Species:	D. melanippus
Binomial name
	Danaus melanippus; (Cramer, [1777])
Subspecies
	See text

Danaus melanippus, the black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger, is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

It ranges from Assam in eastern India through South-East Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan.^[1]^[2] It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.^[2]

Subspecies[]

Listed alphabetically:^[3]

D. m. celebensis (Staudinger, 1889) – northern Sulawesi
D. m. edmondii (Bougainville, 1837) – Philippines
D. m. edwardi (van Eecke, 1914) – Simeulue
D. m. eurydice (Butler, 1884) – Nias
D. m. haruhasa Doherty, 1891 – Sumbawa - Alor
D. m. hegesippus (Cramer, [1777]) – Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung
D. m. indicus (Fruhstorfer, 1899) – eastern India - Thailand, Indo-China
D. m. keteus (Hagen, 1898) – Mentawai
D. m. kotoshonis Matsumura, 1929 – Taiwan
D. m. lotina (Fruhstorfer, 1904) – Natuna Island
D. m. lotis (Cramer, [1779])
D. m. melanippus (Cramer, [1777]) – Java
D. m. meridionigra Martin, [1914] – central Sulawesi
D. m. nesippus (Felder, 1862) – Nicobars
D. m. pietersi (Doherty, 1891) – Enggano
D. m. umbrosus Fruhstorfer, 1906 – Pualu Tello

References[]

^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
^ ^a ^b Smith, David A. S.; Lushai, Gugs & Allen, John A. (2005). A classification of Danaus butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based upon data from morphology and DNA. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 144(2): 191–212. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00169.x (HTML abstract)
^ "Danaus Kluk, 1780" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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