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Blue Tiger: male

Tirumala limniace

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. SOURCE: Wikipedia

Notes:

Is this another Tirumala limniace, male? Can't make out if that is a male mark or not on the wing. it doesn't seem so pronounced as the last one, if it is.

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2 Comments

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

last photo is very nice and like the composition of the fifth one, too!

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

Yes and yes. The sex brand is quite prominent on all of your pics.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swaheel/768... http://www.flickr.com/photos/swaheel/768...

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Jan 28, 2012
Submitted on Jan 30, 2012

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