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Danaus melanippus (White Tiger)

Synonyms: Papilio melanippus

Wikipedia Abstract

The black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger (Danaus melanippus) is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family. It ranges from Assam in eastern India through Southeast Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan. It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.
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Infraspecies

Danaus melanippus albescens
Danaus melanippus camorta
Danaus melanippus celebensis
Danaus melanippus edmondii
Danaus melanippus edwardi
Danaus melanippus erebus
Danaus melanippus eurydice
Danaus melanippus fruhstorferi
Danaus melanippus haruhasa
Danaus melanippus hegesippus
Danaus melanippus indicus
Danaus melanippus insularis
Danaus melanippus keteus
Danaus melanippus kotoshonis
Danaus melanippus lotina
Danaus melanippus lotis
Danaus melanippus malossona
Danaus melanippus melanippus
Danaus melanippus meridionigra
Danaus melanippus mezentius
Danaus melanippus nesippus
Danaus melanippus philozigetes
Danaus melanippus pietersii
Danaus melanippus taimanu
Danaus melanippus thoe
Danaus melanippus umbrosus

Prey / Diet

Cynanchum lanhsuense[1]
Vincetoxicum cissoides[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0