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Rhopalocera (home) -> Nymphalidae -> Danainae

Nymphalidae

Members of this family are generally brush-footed butterflies, this refers to the reduced pair of the first legs or forelegs that are covered in dense hairs. The front pair of legs is inconspicuous and much smaller that the other four. They are not used for walking or holding but for cleaning their antennae and other parts of their body. Butterflies in this family have a distinctive way of flying, after every wingbeat, they hold their wings stretched out from their body and glide for a while without moving their wings.

Danainae

Danaus affinis malayanus
(Swamp Tiger)
Danaus chrysippus chrysippus
(Plain Tiger)
Danaus genutia genutia
(Common Tiger)
Danaus melanippus hegesippus
(Black Veined Tiger)
Euploea camaralzeman malayica
(Malayan Crow)
Euploea crameri bremeri
(Spotted Black Crow)
Euploea eyndhovii gardineri
(Striped Black Crow)
Euploea midamus singapura
(Blue Spotted Crow)
Euploea mulciber mulciber
(Striped Blue Crow)
Euploea phaenareta castelnaui
(King Crow)
Euploea radamanthus radamanthus
(Magpie Crow)
Euploea tulliolus ledereri
(Dwarf Crow)
Idea leuconoe chersonesia
(Mangrove Tree Nymph)
Idea stolli logani
(Common Tree Nymph)
Ideopsis juventa sitah
(Grey Glassy Tiger)
Ideopsis vulgaris macrina
(Blue Glassy Tiger)
Parantica agleoides agleoides
(Dark Glassy Tiger)
Parantica aspasia aspasia
(Yellow Glassy Tiger)
 




Rhopalocera (home) -> Nymphalidae -> Danainae

Nymphalidae

Members of this family are generally brush-footed butterflies, this refers to the reduced pair of the first legs or forelegs that are covered in dense hairs. The front pair of legs is inconspicuous and much smaller that the other four. They are not used for walking or holding but for cleaning their antennae and other parts of their body. Butterflies in this family have a distinctive way of flying, after every wingbeat, they hold their wings stretched out from their body and glide for a while without moving their wings.

Danainae

Danaus affinis malayanus
(Swamp Tiger)
Danaus chrysippus chrysippus
(Plain Tiger)
Danaus genutia genutia
(Common Tiger)
Danaus melanippus hegesippus
(Black Veined Tiger)
Euploea camaralzeman malayica
(Malayan Crow)
Euploea crameri bremeri
(Spotted Black Crow)
Euploea eyndhovii gardineri
(Striped Black Crow)
Euploea midamus singapura
(Blue Spotted Crow)
Euploea mulciber mulciber
(Striped Blue Crow)
Euploea phaenareta castelnaui
(King Crow)
Euploea radamanthus radamanthus
(Magpie Crow)
Euploea tulliolus ledereri
(Dwarf Crow)
Idea leuconoe chersonesia
(Mangrove Tree Nymph)
Idea stolli logani
(Common Tree Nymph)
Ideopsis juventa sitah
(Grey Glassy Tiger)
Ideopsis vulgaris macrina
(Blue Glassy Tiger)
Parantica agleoides agleoides
(Dark Glassy Tiger)
Parantica aspasia aspasia
(Yellow Glassy Tiger)
 




Rhopalocera (home) -> Nymphalidae -> Danainae

Nymphalidae

Members of this family are generally brush-footed butterflies, this refers to the reduced pair of the first legs or forelegs that are covered in dense hairs. The front pair of legs is inconspicuous and much smaller that the other four. They are not used for walking or holding but for cleaning their antennae and other parts of their body. Butterflies in this family have a distinctive way of flying, after every wingbeat, they hold their wings stretched out from their body and glide for a while without moving their wings.

Danainae

Danaus affinis malayanus
(Swamp Tiger)
Danaus chrysippus chrysippus
(Plain Tiger)
Danaus genutia genutia
(Common Tiger)
Danaus melanippus hegesippus
(Black Veined Tiger)
Euploea camaralzeman malayica
(Malayan Crow)
Euploea crameri bremeri
(Spotted Black Crow)
Euploea eyndhovii gardineri
(Striped Black Crow)
Euploea midamus singapura
(Blue Spotted Crow)
Euploea mulciber mulciber
(Striped Blue Crow)
Euploea phaenareta castelnaui
(King Crow)
Euploea radamanthus radamanthus
(Magpie Crow)
Euploea tulliolus ledereri
(Dwarf Crow)
Idea leuconoe chersonesia
(Mangrove Tree Nymph)
Idea stolli logani
(Common Tree Nymph)
Ideopsis juventa sitah
(Grey Glassy Tiger)
Ideopsis vulgaris macrina
(Blue Glassy Tiger)
Parantica agleoides agleoides
(Dark Glassy Tiger)
Parantica aspasia aspasia
(Yellow Glassy Tiger)
 




Rhopalocera (home)

Nymphalidae

Members of this family are generally brush-footed butterflies, this refers to the reduced pair of the first legs or forelegs that are covered in dense hairs. The front pair of legs is inconspicuous and much smaller that the other four. They are not used for walking or holding but for cleaning their antennae and other parts of their body. Butterflies in this family have a distinctive way of flying, after every wingbeat, they hold their wings stretched out from their body and glide for a while without moving their wings.

Danainae

Danaus affinis malayanus
(Swamp Tiger)
Danaus chrysippus chrysippus
(Plain Tiger)
Danaus genutia genutia
(Common Tiger)
Danaus melanippus hegesippus
(Black Veined Tiger)
Euploea camaralzeman malayica
(Malayan Crow)
Euploea crameri bremeri
(Spotted Black Crow)
Euploea eyndhovii gardineri
(Striped Black Crow)
Euploea midamus singapura
(Blue Spotted Crow)
Euploea mulciber mulciber
(Striped Blue Crow)
Euploea phaenareta castelnaui
(King Crow)
Euploea radamanthus radamanthus
(Magpie Crow)
Euploea tulliolus ledereri
(Dwarf Crow)
Idea leuconoe chersonesia
(Mangrove Tree Nymph)
Idea stolli logani
(Common Tree Nymph)
Ideopsis juventa sitah
(Grey Glassy Tiger)
Ideopsis vulgaris macrina
(Blue Glassy Tiger)
Parantica agleoides agleoides
(Dark Glassy Tiger)
Parantica aspasia aspasia
(Yellow Glassy Tiger)
 




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Acknowledgements

This checklist is updated regularly and validated in consultation with Dr Laurence G Kirton (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia), and previously, the late Col John N Eliot, (of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, Edition 4). Contributions to the sightings and latest additions to the Singapore Checklist are with special thanks to the hardworking members of ButterflyCircle.


Singapore is home to 334 species of butterflies, that are feeding on 198 species of hostplants.


Legend for Life History record:
Completed Partial None

Updates

The latest update in 2008 is consistent with the recent re-classification developments and updates to C&P4 in the Malaysian Nature Journal 59(1), pp 1 - 49, and DNA mapping of the family Nymphalidae by Wahlberg et al, whereby the Subfamilies Nymphalinae, Heliconiinae, Limenitidinae, Cyrestinae and Apaturinae are now applicable to the Singapore checklist. The family Riodinidae, which was earlier placed as a subfamily of Lycaenidae, has also been reinstated to the family level.

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