| Spotted royal | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Tajuria |
| Species: | T. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tajuria maculata (Hewitson, 1865) | |
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Tajuria maculata, the spotted royal, [1] [2] is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Initially thought to be occurring in Sikkim to Peninsular Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra. [2] Though there was a single specimen record of T. maculata from south India with the de Nicéville collection, that Stokes Roberts took from the Nilgiris district, northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Western Ghats (Yates 1935), it was confirmed only in 2011 by V.K. Sarkar et al. [6] This rare butterfly was sighted again in the Nilgiris nearly a century over. [7]
In May 2013, naturalists found eggs and caterpillars of this butterfly in Lakkidy, Wayanad, Keralam. They successfully recorded the complete lifecycle, the first time in India. [8] [9]
In 1865, William Chapman Hewitson described this butterfly as:
Upperside. Female. Anterior wing dark brown, with a large central spot of white from the base to beyond the middle, with its base and a spot at its middle lilac. Posterior wing with the costal margin, a submarginal band of spots, a spot above these, and the outer margin dark brown : a submarginal line of white and some lilac spots.
Underside white, with numerous black spots.
The larvae feed on Dendrophthoe spp., Loranthus spp. and Viscum spp. [10]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :W.C., Hewitson (1866). Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycænidæ. London: John Van Voorst. p. 228. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1911–1912). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. IX. Vol. 9. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 124–126.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last=  | This Theclinae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |