Thaumantis diores

Jungle Glory
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Thaumantis
Species: T. diores
Binomial name
Thaumantis diores
Doubleday, 1845

The Jungle Glory Thaumantis diores Doubleday, 1845[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae sub family of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

Distribution

The Jungle Glory ranges from Sikkim to Myanmar. A subspecies is found in Taiwan and it is suspected that the butterfly occurs in NorthThailand and North Vietnam as well.[1][2][3]

Status

Evans reports the butterfly as Not Rare in its Indian range[2] while Wynter-Blyth reports it as Not Common.[3]

Distribution

See glossary for terms used

Males and females have the upperside dusky brown; forewing with a broad beautifully iridescent blue discal band from below vein 8 to dorsum, extending posteriorly towards the base of the wing, outwardly suffused with a brilliant silvery gloss. Hind wing with a median, similar, somewhat rounded patch, the outward silvery gloss very brilliant, in fresh specimens the blue spreading towards the base of the wings. Underside rich silky brown, terminal margins of the wings broadly paler, sprinkled with lilacine scales near an inward well-denned very pale brownish-yellow sinuous line; the basal five-sixths of the wings darkening perceptibly outwards. Fore wing with two pairs of transverse sinuous dark narrow bands across cell, followed by an oblique discal similar band, from costa to interspace 1. Hind wing with two similar transverse bands divergent posteriorly, an oval yellowish-white spot in interspaces 2 and 6 respectively and a dark tornal spot; the spot in interspace 2 shaded with brown. Antennae red; head, thorax and abdomen brown. Male secondary sex-mark a small erectile tuft of hair, not covering apparently any specialized scales, near the base of the subcostal vein on the upperside of the hind wing.[4]

Cited references

  1. 1 2 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Thaumantis genus.
  2. 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, pg 132-133.
  3. 1 2 Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 134.
  4. ↑ Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol 1.

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