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Blue Tiger butterfly

Tirumala limniace

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Butterfly with blue and black markings.

Habitat:

Found it on Indian Heliotrope along with two other species of butterfly. One was almost identical except that the markings were white, not blue.

Notes:

venusflytrap2000 Id-ed it for me. Many thanks.

Species ID Suggestions

Blue Tiger

Tirumala limniace

Reference Link
Caleb Steindel
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Comments (3)
SukanyaDatta
Thank you venusflytrap2000 for the ID. The herb is Indian heliotrope, called Hathir shur in Bengali/Bangla. Hathi = elephant. Shur= trunk. Very descriptive isn't it? Medicinal too.

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PublishedApril 20, 2014

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