Thauria aliris

Tufted jungleking
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Thauria
Species:	T. aliris
Binomial name
	Thauria aliris; (Westwood, 1858)[1]
Subspecies
	T. a. aliris; T. a. pseudaliris; T. a. intermedia; T. a. siamensis; T. a. amplifascia; T. a. merguia;
Synonyms
	Thaumantis aliris Westwood, 1858; Thaumantis pseudaliris Butler, 1877; Thauria pseudaliris Butler, 1877;

Thauria aliris, the tufted jungleking,[1] is a butterfly found in South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.

Distribution

The tufted jungleking ranges among Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo and Tonkin.[1][2]

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported the butterfly as very rare in northern Myanmar.[2]

"Thauria Moore, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 133–134.

Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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