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Blue Tiger

Tirumala limniace

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Description:

The Blue Tiger (Tirumala limniace) is a butterfly found in India that belongs to the Crows and Tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the Brush-footed butterflies family. This butterfly shows gregarious migratory behaviour in southern India.

Upperside black, with bluish-white semihyaline spots and streaks. Fore wing: interspace 1 two streaks, sometimes coalescent, with a spot beyond cell: a streak from base and an outwardly indented spot at its apex; a large oval spot at base of interspace 2, another at base of interspace 3, with a smaller spot beyond it towards termen; five obliquely placed preapical streaks, and somewhat irregular subterminal and terminal series of spots, the latter the smaller. Hind wing: interspaces 1b, 1a, and 1 with streaks from base, double in the latter two, cell with a forked broad streak, the lower branch with a hook, or spur-like slender loop, at base of 4 and 5 a broad elongate streak, and at base of 6 a quadrate spot; beyond these again a number of scattered unequal subterminal and terminal spots.
Underside: basal two-thirds of fore wing dusky black, the apex and hind wing olive-brown; the spots and streaks much as on the upperside, Antennae, head and thorax black, the latter two spotted and streaked with, white; abdomen dusky above, ochraceous spotted with white beneath. Male secondary sex-mark in form 1.
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Notes:

trying to decide if this is...
1. Ideopsis vulgaris
2. Tirumala septentrionis
3. Tirumala limniace
and if the other one I spotted is the same species, or different.
www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8470614

Species ID Suggestions

Tirumala limniace

Tirumala limniace

Comments (2)

Hi Martini, The v in the spotting above seems to be fatter, start from the base of the wing and is above the sex brand. Is that the one you are talking about? On the other photo the v is thiner and under the 2 white strips. I guess this needs a while to be able to pick up the differences.
If you compare the two Tirumala species in this gallery you will see the fine upside down "V's" that tell you that yours are Tirumala also. The sex brand is very clear on your male. T. limniace has much thicker white bars as in your beautiful spotting above.

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