| 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).
|
| Distribution Map |
|
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 |