Cirrochroa thais

Tamil yeoman
Upperside
Underside
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cirrochroa
Species:
C. thais
Binomial name
Cirrochroa thais
(Fabricius, 1787)

Cirrochroa thais, also known as the Tamil yeoman,[1][2] is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in forested areas of tropical Sri Lanka and India.[1][3][4][5] It is the state insect of Tamil Nadu, an Indian state.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 206. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. ^ "Cirrochroa thais - Tamil Yeoman - Butterflies of India".
  3. ^ "Cirrochroa Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  4. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 421–423.
  5. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1899–1900). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. IV. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 218–220.
  6. ^ Kumar, K Sambath (30 June 2019). "Tamil yeoman declared Tamil Nadu's state butterfly". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ Shrikumar, A. (2019-07-25). "On how Tamil Yeoman became the State butterfly of Tamil Nadu". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-08-02.