Parantica

Parantica
Parantica aglea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subtribe:	Danaina
Genus:	Parantica Moore, 1880
Species
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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.^[1] For other butterflies called tigers see the genus Danaus.

Species[]

Species in alphabetical order:^[1][2]

• 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
• (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
• (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
• Parantica marcia (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) – Biak tiger
• Parantica menadensis (Moore, 1883) – Manado tiger
• Parantica melaneus (Cramer, 1775) – chocolate tiger
• (Grose-Smith, 1894)
• Parantica milagros (Schröder & Treadaway, 1880) – Milagros' tiger
• Parantica nilgiriensis (Moore, 1877) – Nilgiri tiger
• (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
• (Koch, 1865)
• Parantica schoenigi (Jumalon, 1971) – Father Schoenig's chocolate
• Parantica sita (Kollar, 1844) – chestnut tiger
• Parantica sulewattan (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Bonthain tiger
• (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
• (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
• Parantica wegneri (Nieuwenhuis, 1960) – Flores tiger
• Parantica weiskei (Rothschild, 1901) – Weiske's tiger

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