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| Topside of D. m. indicus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Danaus |
| Species: | D. melanippus |
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| Danaus melanippus (Cramer, ) | |
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Danaus melanippus, the black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger, 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 South-East Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan. It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.
Gallery
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:
- D. m. celebensis (Staudinger, 1889) – northern Sulawesi
- D. m. edmondii (Bougainville, 1837) – Philippines
- D. m. edwardi (van Eecke, 1914) – Simeulue
- D. m. eurydice (Butler, 1884) – Nias
- D. m. haruhasa Doherty, 1891 – Sumbawa - Alor
- D. m. hegesippus (Cramer, ) – Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung
- D. m. indicus (Fruhstorfer, 1899) – eastern India - Thailand, Indo-China
- D. m. keteus (Hagen, 1898) – Mentawai
- D. m. kotoshonis Matsumura, 1929 – Taiwan
- D. m. lotina (Fruhstorfer, 1904) – Natuna Island
- D. m. lotis (Cramer, )
- D. m. melanippus (Cramer, ) – Java
- D. m. meridionigra Martin, – central Sulawesi
- D. m. nesippus (Felder, 1862) – Nicobars
- D. m. pietersi (Doherty, 1891) – Enggano
- D. m. umbrosus Fruhstorfer, 1906 – Pualu Tello
See also
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- ^ 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)
- "Danaus Kluk, 1780" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
- Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
External links
Media related to Danaus melanippus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Danaus melanippus at Wikispecies
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