Discophora timora

Great duffer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Discophora
Species:	D. timora
Binomial name
Discophora timora Westwood, 1850

Discophora timora, the great duffer, ^[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.

Distribution

The great duffer ranges from Sikkim and Assam in India to Myanmar, Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indochina. ^[1]

A subspecies of the butterfly is found as a rare endemic in the Andaman Islands. It was recorded as Discophora continentalis andamanensis, Staudinger by William Harry Evans. ^[2]

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
• List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)

Cited references

1. "Discophora Boisduval, [1836]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 135, E10.4.

References

• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN   978-8170192329.