''Tajuria cippus'', the peacock royal,
[ is a species of ]lycaenid
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...
or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
.["''Tajuria'' Moore, [1881]"]
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''[Adalbert Seitz">Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9]
Description
Sri Lanka
In Sri lanka these species are sometimes rare, because of the deforestation in some parts of the country.
Subspecies
*''T. c. cippus'' North India, Assam to Thailand
*''T. c. longinus'' (Fabricius, 1798) Ceylon, South India
*''T. c. maxentius'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore
*''T. c. pseudolonginus'' (Doubleday, 1847) Java
*''T. c. theodosius'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Bawean
*''T. c. frontinus'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Lombok
*''T. c. bagus'' (Kheil, 1884) Nias
*''T. c. malcolmi'' Riley & Godfrey Hainan
Gallery
Image:CippusmDSC 3045.jpg, Male
File:BagusMUpUn 443 AC1.jpg, Museum specimen
File:Peacock Royal from Bangalore university.jpg, Ventral view
Image:Peacock Royal (Tajuria cippus) on Santalum album (Chandan) W IMG 9957.jpg, On ''Santalum album'' (chandan) in Hyderabad, India
Image:Peacock Royal (Tajuria cippus) on Santalum album (Chandan) W IMG 9956.jpg, On ''Santalum album'' in Hyderabad
Peacock royal (Tajuria cippus frontinus) Bali I.jpg, ''T. c. frontinus'', Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...
References
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A Checklist of Butterflies in Indo-China
Chiefly from Thailand, Laos & Vietnam.
Tajuria
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Singapore
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