The Nilgiri Tiger (Parantica nilgiriensis) is a butterfly found in the Western Ghats and Nilgiri Hills of southern India belonging to the Danaid group of the Brush-footed butterflies family. Parantica nilgiriensis (Moore 1877) is a near-threatened (IUCN 2-3), butterfly endemic to the high altitudes of the Western Ghats of southern India, belonging to the family Nymphalidae and sub-family Danainae . It is restricted to the shola forests, south of Nilgiri Hills, in the temperate zones of the mountains, above 1500m, though the species occasionally shows up in home gardens and open country to visit flowering plants. It rarely flies as low as 1000m (Larsen 1987). Though Winter Blyth (1957) mentions it as a common species, it has seen a rapid decline in the density of its population over the las