Tirumala (butterfly)
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| Tirumala septentrionis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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[edit]
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Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) | forest monarch or beautiful tiger | Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania | |
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Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) | African blue tiger | Zimbabwe. | |
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Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) | scarce blue tiger | India and Southeast Asia | |
| Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) | crow tiger | Solomon Islands. | ||
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Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866) | Sula Islands | ||
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Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) | blue tiger | South Asia and Southeast Asia |
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Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) | dark blue tiger | Sikkim, into Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Southeast Asia; Odisha; West Bengal, southern India, the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka |
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Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) | dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger | the Philippines to Australia | |
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Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883 | Visayan Islands, the Philippines | ||
| Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994 | China. |
References[edit]
- ^ Savela, Markku (December 25, 2018). "Tirumala Moore, [1880]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
External links[edit]
Media related to Tirumala at Wikimedia Commons
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