Tirumala is a genus of brush-footed butterflies erected by Frederic Moore in 1880. Its species are distributed in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Species Butterfly Caterpillar Name Common name Distribution Tirumala formosa (Godman, 1880) forest monarch Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania Tirumala petiverana (Doubleday, ) blue monarch Zimbabwe. Tirumala gautama (Moore, 1877) scarce blue tigerIndia and Southeast Asia Tirumala euploeomorpha (Howarth, Kawazoé & Sibatani, 1976) crow tigerSolomon Islands. Tirumala choaspes (Butler, 1866) Sula Islands Tirumala limniace (Cramer, ) blue tigerSouth Asia and Southeast Asia Tirumala septentrionis (Butler, 1874) dark blue tigerSikkim, into Assam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Southeast Asia; Odisha; West Bengal, southern India, the Western Ghats and Nilgiris; Sri Lanka Tirumala hamata (MacLeay, 1826) deep blue monarch, blue wanderer the Philippines to Australia Tirumala ishmoides Moore, 1883 Visayan Islands, the Philippines Tirumala alba Chou & Gu, 1994 China.
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