Species name Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, 1847)
アフリカウスコモンアサギマダラ
Dappled monarch; blue monarch; African blue tiger
 Taxonomy Danais limniace var. petiverana Doubleday, 1847 in Doubleday and Westwood, [1846-52].  The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, London: 93 (1: 1-250 pp.; 2: 251-534 pp.). London. Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, 1847).  Ackery & Vane-Wright, 1984.
Type locality: “Africa”.
 Subspecies
Distribution
Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin (Fermon et al., 2001), Nigeria (south and Cross River loop), Cameroon, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Namibia (north), Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, to Zimbabwe (north), Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa (Limpopo Province, Gauteng - single records for both provinces).
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 Biology
 Host plants: Pergularia extensa (= Daemia extensa) (Asclepiadaceae) [Van Someren, 1974: 324]. Hoya species (Asclepiadaceae) [Sevastopulo, cited by Pringle, et al., 1994: 48]. Marsdenia species (Asclepiadaceae) [Larsen, 2005a]. Daemia species (Asclepiadaceae) [Larsen, 2005a].
 Nigeria
 Nigeria
References
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 25 as egialea
Amauris, Site of Markku Savela
Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina