''Tanaecia pelea'', the Malay viscount, is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

Description

''Tanaecia pelea'' has a

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

of about . The basic colour of the upper wings is pale brown with pearly-bluish edges. It has dark brown marking on the basal area and a discal series of dark brown-edged hastate (spear-shaped) markings.

Distribution

It is found in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

, mainland

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

Nias Nias ( id, Pulau Nias, Nias language: ''Tanö Niha'') (sometimes called Little Sumatra in English) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago () of which the island is the centre, ...

and

Pulau Tioman Tioman Island ( ms, Pulau Tioman) is a mukim and an island in Rompin District, Pahang, Malaysia. It is located off the east coast of the state, and is some long and wide. It has seven villages, the largest and most populous being Kampung Tek ...

Subspecies

*''T. p. pelea'' (Malaya, Borneo) *''T. p. heliophila'' (Nias) *''T. p. irenae'' (Pulau Tioman)

Gallery

File:Tanaecia pelea 060329 yk.jpg, Ventral view from Indonesia File:Nymphalidae - Tanaecia pelea heliophila.JPG , ''T. p. heliophila'' from

Nias Island Nias ( id, Pulau Nias, Nias language: ''Tanö Niha'') (sometimes called Little Sumatra in English) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago () of which the island is the centre, ...

File:Tanaecia pelea pelea male.jpg, ''T. p. pelea'' male from Harau,

West Sumatra West Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Barat) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is located on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. The province has an area of , with a population of 5, ...

File:Tanaecia pelea pelea female dorsal.jpg, ''T. p. pelea'' female from Harau, West Sumatra File: Tanaecia pelea pelea femelle veso.jpg, ''T. p. pelea'' female (ventral side) from Harau, West Sumatra

References

"''Tanaecia'' Butler, [1869]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
BioLib.czWorld Field Guide

External links

Tanaecia Butterflies of Singapore Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies described in 1787 {{Limenitidinae-stub