| Tirumala | |
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| Tirumala septentrionis | |
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| Tirumala gautama | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subtribe: | Danaina |
| Genus: | Tirumala Moore, [1880] |
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Tirumala is a genus of brush-footed butterflies erected by Frederic Moore in 1880. Its species are distributed in Africa, Asia, and Australia. [1]
| Butterfly | Caterpillar | Name | Common name | Distribution |
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| | Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) | forest monarch | Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania | |
| | Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, [1847]) | blue monarch | Zimbabwe. | |
| | Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) | scarce blue tiger | India and Southeast Asia | |
| Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) | crow tiger | Solomon Islands. | ||
| | Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866) | Sula Islands | ||
| | | Tirumala limniace (Cramer, [1775]) | blue tiger | South Asia and Southeast Asia |
| | | Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) | dark blue tiger | Sikkim, into Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Southeast Asia; Odisha; West Bengal, southern India, the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka |
| | Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) | dark blue tiger, blue wanderer, or blue tiger | the Philippines to Australia | |
| | Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883 | Visayan Islands, the Philippines | ||
| Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994 | China. | |||