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Parantica

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Kingdom
  
Subtribe
  
Danaina

Phylum
  
Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Parantica

Higher classification
  
Danaini

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Parantica Butterflies of India Parantica aglea

Lower classifications
  
Parantica sita, Parantica aglea, Ceylon tiger, Sumbawa tiger, Weiske's tiger

Butterfly in taiwan parantica aglea maghaba


Parantica, commonly called tigers, is an Old World genus of butterflies in subfamily Danainae of family Nymphalidae. They are found in southeastern Asia, Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Philippines. Many of these species are endemic to islands and considered endangered, vulnerable, or threatened according to the IUCN Red List. For other butterflies called tigers see the genus Danaus.

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Parantica ButterflyCircle Checklist

Species

Species in alphabetical order:

Parantica Butterflies of India Parantica aglea

  • Parantica aglea (Stoll, 1782) – glassy (blue) tiger
  • Parantica agleoides (C. & R. Felder, 1860) – dark glassy tiger
  • Parantica albata (Zinken, 1831) – Zinken's tiger
  • Parantica aspasia (Fabricius, 1787) – yellow glassy tiger
  • Parantica cleona (Stoll, 1782)
  • Parantica clinias (Grose-Smith, 1890) – New Ireland yellow tiger
  • Parantica crowleyi (Jenner Weir, 1894) – Crowley's tiger
  • Parantica dabrerai (Miller & Miller, 1978) – D'Abrera's tiger
  • Parantica dannatti (Talbot, 1936) – Dannatt's tiger
  • Parantica davidi (Schröder, 1976) – David's tiger
  • Parantica fuscela (Parsons, 1989)
  • Parantica garamantis (Godman & Salvin, 1888) – angled tiger
  • Parantica hypowattan (Morishita, 1981) – Morishita's tiger
  • Parantica kirbyi (Grose-Smith, 1894) – Kirby's tiger
  • Parantica kuekenthali (Pagenstecher, 1896) – Kuekenthal's yellow tiger
  • Parantica luzonensis (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
  • Parantica marcia (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) – Biak tiger
  • Parantica menadensis (Moore, 1883) – Manado tiger
  • Parantica melaneus (Cramer, 1775) – chocolate tiger
  • Parantica melusine (Grose-Smith, 1894)
  • Parantica milagros (Schröder & Treadaway, 1880) – Milagros' tiger
  • Parantica nilgiriensis (Moore, 1877) – Nilgiri tiger
  • Parantica pedonga (Fujioka, 1970)
  • Parantica philo (Grose-Smith, 1895) – Sumbawa tiger
  • Parantica phyle (C. & R. Felder, 1863) – Felder's tiger
  • Parantica pseudomelaneus (Moore, 1883) – Javan tiger
  • Parantica pumila (Boisduval, 1859) – least tiger
  • Parantica rotundata (Grose-Smith, 1890) – fat tiger
  • Parantica schenkii (Koch, 1865)
  • Parantica schoenigi (Jumalon, 1971) – Father Schoenig's chocolate
  • Parantica sita (Kollar, 1844) – chestnut tiger
  • Parantica sulewattan (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Bonthain tiger
  • Parantica swinhoei (Moore, 1883) – Swinhoe's chocolate tiger
  • Parantica taprobana (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Ceylon tiger
  • Parantica tityoides (Hagen, 1890) – Sumatran chocolate tiger
  • Parantica timorica (Grose-Smith, 1887) – Timor yellow tiger
  • Parantica toxopei (Nieuwenhuis, 1969)Toxopeus' yellow tiger
  • Parantica vitrina (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
  • Parantica wegneri (Nieuwenhuis, 1960) – Flores tiger
  • Parantica weiskei (Rothschild, 1901) – Weiske's tiger

  • Parantica ButterflyCircle Checklist

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    References

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