Danaus affinis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Danaus
- Species
- Danaus affinis
- Scientific Name
- Danaus affinis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Danaus affinis
Danaus affinis, the Malay tiger, mangrove tiger or swamp tiger, is a butterfly found in tropical Asia. It belongs to the "crows and tigers", the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
This is a highly variable species. In its range, which stretches from Thailand to the Philippines and southwards through Indonesia to Melanesia and northeastern Australia, it has at least around 30, possibly many more subspecies. Its closest relative is the white tiger, Danaus melanippus.
...Danaus affinis in languages:
- English
- Malay Tiger Butterfly
- English
- Swamp Tiger Butterfly
- English
- Mangrove Tiger Butterfly
- English
- Swamp Tiger
- English
- Malay Tiger
- English
- Mangrove Tiger
- French
- Tigre des marécages
- Japanese
- アフィニスカバマダラ
- Thai
- ผีเสื้อลายเสือมลายู
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Danaus affinis abigar
- Danaus affinis affinis
- Danaus affinis affinoides
- Danaus affinis albistriga
- Danaus affinis albonotata
- Danaus affinis aruana
- Danaus affinis bipuncta
- Danaus affinis biseriata
- Danaus affinis bonguensis
- Danaus affinis cometho
- Danaus affinis decentralis
- Danaus affinis decipiens
- Danaus affinis decipientis
- Danaus affinis djampeana
- Danaus affinis fergussonia
- Danaus affinis ferruginea
- Danaus affinis fulgurata
- Danaus affinis galacterion
- Danaus affinis gelanor
- Danaus affinis hegesippinus
- Danaus affinis jimiensis
- Danaus affinis jobiensis
- Danaus affinis kiriwina
- Danaus affinis leucippus
- Danaus affinis malayana
- Danaus affinis mytilene
- Danaus affinis obscura
- Danaus affinis pleistarchus
- Danaus affinis sabrona
- Danaus affinis subnigra
- Danaus affinis taruna
- Danaus affinis tualana
- Danaus affinis wentholti