Tajuria cippus, the peacock royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm."Tajuria Moore, " at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life FormsSeitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
Description
Sri Lanka In Sri lanka these species are sometimes rare, because of the deforestation in some parts of the country.
Subspecies T. c. cippus North Pakistan, Assam to Thailand T. c. longinus (Fabricius, 1798) Ceylon, South India T. c. maxentius Fruhstorfer, 1912 Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore T. c. pseudolonginus (Doubleday, 1847) Java T. c. theodosius Fruhstorfer, 1912 Bawean T. c. frontinus Fruhstorfer, 1912 Lombok T. c. bagus (Kheil, 1884) Nias T. c. malcolmi Riley & Godfrey Hainan
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References
, A Checklist of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from Thailand, Laos & Vietnam.