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Danaus melanippus hegesippus
Black Veined Tiger
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Details
Family : Nymphalidae
Subfamily : Danainae
Genus : Danaus
Common Name : Black Veined Tiger
Wingspan : 80-90mm
Hostplant(s) :
Status In Singapore :
 
Description
This species is often confused with the Common Tiger (Danaus genutia genutia) which is resembles. The broad submarginal black band in the Black Veined Tiger is broader and this distinguishes it from the Common Tiger. Unlike the Common Tiger, this species has no orange forms. The Black Veined Tiger is found commonly on Pulau Tekong, where the Common Tiger is mysteriously absent.
Habitat & Habits
The Black Veined Tiger belongs to the Subfamily Danainae, and is a distant cousin of the famous American Monarch Butterfly - Danaus plexippus. The butterfly, with its bright colours, is distasteful to predators. The Black Veined Tiger can usually be found near coastal / mangrove areas. It is attracted to the dried plants of Heliotropium indicum.
Early Stages
The larva is blackish, with grey stripes and spots and a subdorsal series of yellowish spots, it posed 3 pairs of slender filamentous processes with black tips.
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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.
   
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.
 
  There are currently 294 extant species in the Singapore Butterfly Checklist. Legend for Life History record:
Completed Life history record completed. Partial Life history record partially completed. None Life history yet to be recorded. 		 
 
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