Tirumala septentrionis

Adumbratio a C. T. Bingham facta, ex The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma (1905)

Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta
Ordo : Lepidoptera
Familia : Nymphalidae
Subfamilia : Danainae
Genus : Tirumala
Species : T. septentrionis

Tirumala septentrionis
(Butler, 1874)

Tirumala septentrionis (Anglice dark blue tiger) est papilio subfamiliae Danainarum familiae Nymphalidarum, in Asia Meridiana et Asia Meridio-Orientali endemicus.

Descriptio

Hic papilio Tirumalae limniacis similis est.^[1]

Latitudo alarum est 80–115 mm.

Distributio

Himalaia a Simla ad Sikhim, in Assamiam, Birmaniam, et Asiam Meridio-Orientalem; Orissa, Bengalia Occidentalis; India Meridiana, Western Ghats,^? et Nilgiris; Taprobane.

Habitus

Haec species est una ex praepollentibus speciebus (78%) per tempus migratorium in India Meridiana, cum multae species migrant. Mares et feminae ut videntur numeris aequalibus migrant.^[2]

Vita

Ovum
Eruca
Pupa
Adultus

Eruca erucae T. limniace similis est.^[3] Ea secundum MacKinnon et de Niceville Vallare dichotoma vescitur.^[4] Alii hostes sunt Cosmostigma racemosa,^[5] Heterostemma brownii et species generis Cocculi.^[6]

Pinacotheca

Super Crotalariam retusam in silva Talakona, in Chittoor Districtu Andhra Pradesh, India.
Super Crotalariam retusam in silva Talakona, in Chittoor Districtu Andhra Pradesh, India.
Super Crotalariam retusam in silva Talakona, in Chittoor Districtu Andhra Pradesh, India.
Tirumala limniace et Tirumala septentrionis super Crotalarium retusam in silva Talakona, in Chittoor Districtu Andhra Pradesh, India.
Tirumala limniace et Tirumala septentrionis super Crotalarium retusam in silva Talakona, in Chittoor Districtu Andhra Pradesh, India.

Notae

↑ C. T. Bingham, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. 1, Butterflies. (1905).
↑ K. Kunte (2005), Species composition, sex-ratios and movement patterns in Danaine butterfly migrations in southern India. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 102(3):280-286.
↑ Vide Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 10 (1896), p. 240.
↑ Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 11 (1807), p. 212).
↑ P. V. Nair (2005), Cosmostigma racemosa, a new host plant record of the Dark Blue Tiger Butterfly Tirumala septentrionis from Kerala. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 102(3):354.
↑ Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni, et Luis M. Hernández, De hostibus apud situm nhm.ac.uk (HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants).

Nexus externus

De specie apud situm butterflies.wildreach.com (Sri Lanka Wild Life Information Database)

Nexus interni

Insecta

Haec stipula ad insectum spectat. Amplifica, si potes!

[bingham-1] C. T. Bingham, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. 1, Butterflies. (1905).

[2] K. Kunte (2005), Species composition, sex-ratios and movement patterns in Danaine butterfly migrations in southern India. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 102(3):280-286.

[3] Vide Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 10 (1896), p. 240.

[4] Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 11 (1807), p. 212).

[5] P. V. Nair (2005), Cosmostigma racemosa, a new host plant record of the Dark Blue Tiger Butterfly Tirumala septentrionis from Kerala. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 102(3):354.

[6] Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni, et Luis M. Hernández, De hostibus apud situm nhm.ac.uk (HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants).

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