Tirumala

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: Tirumala
Species: T. hamata – T. ishmoides – T. limniace – T. septentrionis – T. tumanana
Name

Tirumala Moore, 1881.

Type Species: Papilio limniace Cramer, [1775], by original designation.
References

Cramer, P., 1775-1780. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in der drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Afrika en America (etc). Amsterdam, Baalde & Utrecht, 4 vols (252 pp. 400 pls.) and Suppl. (184 pp. 42 pls.) Vol 1; Vol 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4; Suppl.
Eliot, J. N., 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 4th Edn. Kuala Lumpur.
Moore, F., 1881. Lepidoptera of Ceylon Volume 1. L. Reeve & Co., London. 190 pp. 71 pls.
Okano, M. & T. Okano 1986: New or little known butterflies from the Visayan Islands, the Philippines (1). Artes Liberales 38: 105–114.
Treadaway, C. G. & Schröder, H., 2012. Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nach. ent. Ver. Apollo 32 Suppl. 20, 64pp.

Tirumala is a genus of brush-footed butterflies erected by Frederic Moore in 1880. Its species are distributed in Africa, Asia, and Australia.[1]
Species

Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) – forest monarch or beautiful tiger
Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) – African blue tiger
Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) – scarce blue tiger
Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) – crow tiger
Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866)
Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) – blue tiger
Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) – dark blue tiger
Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) – dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger
Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883
Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994

References

Savela, Markku (December 25, 2018). "Tirumala Moore, [1880]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.