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Thauria aliris

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Species of butterfly

Tufted jungleking
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Thauria
Species: T. aliris
Binomial name
Thauria aliris
(Westwood, 1858)
Subspecies
  • T. a. aliris
  • T. a. pseudaliris
  • T. a. intermedia
  • T. a. siamensis
  • T. a. amplifascia
  • T. a. merguia
Synonyms
  • Thaumantis aliris Westwood, 1858
  • Thaumantis pseudaliris Butler, 1877
  • Thauria pseudaliris Butler, 1877

Thauria aliris, the tufted jungleking, 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.

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported the butterfly as very rare in northern Myanmar.

See also

Cited references

  1. ^ "Thauria Moore, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 133–134.

References

Taxon identifiers
Thauria aliris
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