Tirumala (butterfly)

Tirumala
File:Open wing Basking of Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) - Dark Blue Tiger (Female) WLB IMG 4025.jpg
Tirumala septentrionis
File:IMG4357 Burma Arakan State Tirumala Gautama Gautama male Tandwé City (7744866476).jpg
Tirumala gautama
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subtribe:	Danaina
Genus:	Tirumala Moore, [1880]
Synonyms
Melinda Moore, 1883 Elsa Honrath, 1892

Tirumala is a genus of brush-footed butterflies erected by Frederic Moore in 1880. Its species are distributed in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Species

Butterfly	Caterpillar	Name	Common name	Distribution
File:ProceedingsZSL1880Plate19, fig. 1, Tirumala formosa.jpg		Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880)	forest monarch or beautiful tiger	Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
File:African blue tiger (Tirumala petiverana).jpg		Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847])	African blue tiger	Zimbabwe.
File:IMG4357 Burma Arakan State Tirumala Gautama Gautama male Tandwé City (7744866476).jpg		Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877)	scarce blue tiger	India and Southeast Asia
		Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976)	crow tiger	Solomon Islands.
File:Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate78.JPG		Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866)		Sula Islands
File:Open wing nectering of Tirumala limniace Cramer, 1775 – Blue Tiger on Lantana camara flower WLB DSC 0131.jpg	File:Tirumala limniace Cramer, 1775 – Blue Tiger caterpillar at Kannavam RF (3).jpg	Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775])	blue tiger	South Asia and Southeast Asia
File:Tirumala septentrionis Butler, 1874 – Dark Blue Tiger at Peravoor 2017 (4).jpg	File:Tirumala septentrionis - Dark Blue Tiger life cycle caterpillar at Peravoor (61).jpg	Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874)	dark blue tiger	Sikkim, into Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Southeast Asia; Odisha; West Bengal, southern India, the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka
File:Tirumala hamata Blue tiger 7th Brigade Park Chermside P1120145.jpg		Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826)	dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger	the Philippines to Australia
File:Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate78.JPG		Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883		Visayan Islands, the Philippines
		Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994		China.

External links

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Tirumala at Wikimedia Commons