Tirumala limniace (Cramer, 1775)

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1001

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.4.997

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5469722

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C08795-FFE5-975D-3339-0585FB9E6C8D

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Tirumala limniace (Cramer, 1775)
status

 

Tirumala limniace (Cramer, 1775) View in CoL

Blue Tiger

Figure 4H

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch district, Ankleshwar; transects T-03, T-07 ( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/discarded lands, and near ponds with surrounding wetland plants.

Identification. Pale-blue streaks and spots against black or brown background; underside hindwing with pale or white cell, with thin black narrow forked streak in the middle; males smaller than females; characteristic flat pendulous pouch near the cell of the hindwing, which contains scent scales.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Tirumala

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