Tirumala (butterfly)
Tirumala | |
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Tirumala septentrionis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subtribe: | Danaina |
Genus: | Tirumala Moore, [1880] |
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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[]
- Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) – forest monarch or beautiful tiger
- Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) – African blue tiger
- Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) – scarce blue tiger
- Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) – crow tiger
- (Butler, 1866)
- Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) – blue tiger
- Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) – dark blue tiger
- Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) – dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger
- Moore, 1883
- Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994
References[]
- ^ Savela, Markku (December 25, 2018). "Tirumala Moore, [1880]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
External links[]
- Media related to Tirumala at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Tirumala (butterfly)
- Taxa named by Frederic Moore
- Butterfly genera
- Danainae stubs