Discophora timora

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Great duffer
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Domain: Eukaryota
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.

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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

Cited references

  1. 1 2 "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.

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