Danaus melanippus

Black veined tiger
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Danaini
Genus: Danaus
Species: D. melanippus
Binomial name
Danaus melanippus
(Cramer, [1777])
Subspecies

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The black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger (Danaus melanippus) is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

It ranges from Assam in eastern India through Southeast Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan.[1][2] It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[3]

See also

References

  1. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd edition). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
  2. 1 2 Smith, David A. S.; Lushai, Gugs & Allen, John A. (2005). A classification of Danaus butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based upon data from morphology and DNA. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 144(2): 191–212. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00169.x (HTML abstract)
  3. Danaus melanippus, funet.fi

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