Tirumala hamata (Blue Tiger)

Southern Downs Buterflies & MothsAloa marginata (Donovan’s Tiger Moth) Amata trigonophora (Tiger Moth) Candalides xanthospilos (Yellow-spot Blue) Cephonodes kingii (Day Flying Hawk Moth) Genduara punctigera (Crexa Moth) Opodiphthera loranthi (Emperor Moth) Papilio aegeus aegeus (Orchard Butterfly) Tirumala hamata (Blue Tiger)

Tirumala hamata (in the family Nymphalidae), commonly known as the Blue Tiger Butterfly or the Dark Tiger, is distributed from the Philippines to Australia and the Pacific Oceanic Islands such as Samoa.

Some years in Australia, the Tirumala hamata butterflies have been seen in mass migrations to the south, and a rare migratory journey to New Zealand (April 1995).

The adults have black wings with blue spots. They are grey with black bands between segments and orange lateral lines and a black head with white markings. They have a wingspan of about 70 mm.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Informal: Pterygotes
Order: Lepidoptera
Unranked: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Danainae
Tribe: Danaini
Subtribe: Danaina
Genus: Tirumala
Species: Tirumala hamata

Footnote & References

Tirumala hamata (Macleay, 1826), Blue Tiger Butterfly, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/65d7d4db-e83a-449a-8c33-60b4698cd5c0

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