Parantica melaneus

Chocolate Tiger
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Parantica
Species: P. melaneus
Binomial name
Parantica melaneus
(Cramer, 1775)
Synonyms

Danais melanea

The Chocolate Tiger (Parantica melaneus) is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Crows and Tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

Description

Upperside: forewing black, Hindwing very dark purplish brown, with faintly bluish white subhyaline markings. Underside: fore wing black, the apex broadly suffused with bright chestnut-brown; hind wing bright chestnut-browvn, with a patch on the costa and a portion of the disc and termen very much darker in most specimens. For the rest exactly resembles D. tytia in form and disposition of the subhyaline markings, but these are more clearlv defined and it is proportionately smaller, the subterminal and terminal spots on the hind wing-generally very distinct. Antennae black; head and thorax black, spotted with white; abdomen bright ochraceous. Expanse: 94–100 mm.[1]

Range

The Eastern Himalayas; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim, extending to the Malayan subregion.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Bingham, C. T. (1905) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies Vol. 1
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