Tirumala gautama

Scarce blue tiger
male, Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Tirumala
Species:
T. gautama
Binomial name
Tirumala gautama
(Moore, 1877)

Tirumala gautama, the scarce blue tiger, is a butterfly species found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

  1. ^ Lepidoptera Specialist Group (1996). "Tirumala gautama". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996. IUCN: e.T21917A9340620. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21917A9340620.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.