Tajuria albiplaga

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Pallid royal
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Tajuria
Species:
T. albiplaga
Binomial name
Tajuria albiplaga
de Niceville, 1887 [1]

Tajuria albiplaga, the pallid royal , is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. [2]

Subspecies[]

  • T. a. albiplaga Sikkim, Assam
  • T. a. pallescens Druce, [1903] Assam, Burma, Thailand
  • T. a. alixae Eliot, 1973 Peninsular Malaya
  • T. a. tura de Nicéville, 1895 Java, Sumatra

References[]

  1. ^ de Nicéville, 1887 Descriptions of some new or little-known Butterflies from India, with some Notes on the seasonal Dimorphism obtaining in the Genus Melanitis Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 (3) : 448-467, pl. 39-40
  2. ^ Bernard d'Abrera (1986) Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Part 3: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae Hill House Publishers ISBN 0-9593639-4-7
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