Discophora timora
Appearance
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Discophora timora Westwood, 1850
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Discophora timora, the great duffer,[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Distribution
The great duffer ranges from Sikkim and Assam in India to Myanmar, Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indochina.[1]
A subspecies of the butterfly is found as a rare endemic in the Andaman Islands. It was recorded as Discophora continentalis andamanensis, Staudinger by William Harry Evans.[2]
See also
- List of butterflies of India
- List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
Cited references
- ^ a b "Discophora Boisduval, [1836]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 135, E10.4.
References
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.