Parantica

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Danainae
Tribus: Danaini
Subtribus: Danaina
Genus: Parantica
Species: P. aglea - P. agleoides – P. albata – P. aspasia – P. cleona – P. clinias – P. crowleyi – P. dabrerai – P. dannatti – P. davidi – P. fuscela – P. garamantis – P. hainanica – P. hypowattan – P. kirbyi – P. kuekenthali – P. luzonensis – P. marcia – P. melaneus – P. melusine – P. menadensis – P. milagros – P. nilgiriensis – P. pedonga – P. philo – P. phyle – P. pseudomelaneus – P. pumila – P. rotundata – P. schenkii – P. schoenigi – P. sita – P. sulewatan – P. swinhoei – P. taprobana – P. timorica – P. toxopei – P. tityoides – P. vitrina – P. wegneri – P. weiskei

Name

Parantica Moore, [1880]

Type species: Papilio aglea Stoll, 1782
References

Chou, I. & Yuan, X.Q. 2001: New Species, New Subspecies and New Record of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China (IV). Entomotaxonomia, 23(2): 141–146. Reference page.
Hanafusa, H. 1993. A list of butterflies from Mentawai Islands, Indonesia (1). Futao 11: 1–13. Reference page.
Müller, C.J., 2002: New butterfly taxa from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 29 (1): 29–36.

Vernacular names
English: Tigers

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.[1] For other butterflies called tigers see the genus Danaus.
Species

Species in alphabetical order:[1][2]

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

References

"IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals". www.aworldforbutterflies.com. Archived from the original on 2001-04-30.
http://www.funet.fi/ Parantica