BLUE TIGER BUTTERFLY Tirumala limniace Nymphalidae : Brush Footed Butterflies
The Blue Tiger (Tirumala limniace) is a butterfly found in India. Upperside black, with bluish-white semihyaline spots and streaks. Fore wing: interspace 1 two streaks, sometimes coalescent, with a spot beyond cell: a streak from base and an outwardly indented spot at its apex; a large oval spot at base of interspace 2, another at base of interspace 3, with a smaller spot beyond it towards termen; five obliquely placed preapical streaks, and somewhat irregular subterminal and terminal series of spots, the latter the smaller. Hind wing: interspaces 1b, 1a, and 1 with streaks from base, double in the latter two, cell with a forked broad streak, the lower branch with a hook, or spur-like slender loop, at base of 4 and 5 a broad elongate streak, and at base of 6 a quadrate spot; beyond these again a number of scattered unequal subterminal and terminal spots.
Size: 3386px × 5080px
Location: India
Photo credit: © Nirmal Kulkarni / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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