Thauria aliris
Species of butterfly
Tufted jungleking | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Thauria |
Species: | T. aliris |
Binomial name | |
Thauria aliris (Westwood, 1858)[1] | |
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Thauria aliris, the tufted jungleking,[1] is a butterfly found in South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Distribution
The tufted jungleking ranges among Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo and Tonkin.[1][2]
Status
In 1932, William Harry Evans reported the butterfly as very rare in northern Myanmar.[2]
See also
- List of butterflies of India
- List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
Cited references
- ^ a b c "Thauria Moore, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 133–134.
References
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
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