Danaus melanippus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Danaus
- Species
- Danaus melanippus
- Scientific Name
- Danaus melanippus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Danaus melanippus
Danaus melanippus, the black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger, is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
It ranges from Assam in eastern India through South-East Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan. It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.
...Danaus melanippus in languages:
- Chinese
- 白虎斑蝶
- English
- White Tiger Butterfly
- English
- Black-veined Tiger Butterfly
- Japanese
- コウトウカバマダラ
- Japanese
- コウトウマダラ
- Japanese
- スジグロシロマダラ
- Thai
- ผีเสื้อลายเสือขีดขาว
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Anosia
- Danaus
- Danaus bibussa
- Danaus birungensis
- Danaus chaoaspina
- Danaus chrysippus
- Danaus cleophile
- Danaus diapientis
- Danaus erippus
- Danaus genutia
- Danaus gilippus
- Danaus infumatus
- Danaus ismare
- Danaus malayensis
- Danaus mangiolina
- Danaus melanippus
- Danaus petilia
- Danaus plexippus
- Danaus plexippus × gilippus
- Danaus ravida
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