Danaus dorippus

Dorippus tiger
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Danaus
Species:	D. dorippus
Binomial name
	Danaus dorippus; (Klug, 1845)
Synonyms
	Euploea dorippus Klug, 1845; Limnas dorippus; Danaus chrysippus aegyptius f. dorippus; Danaus (Anosia) chrysippus f. dorippus; Danaus chrysippus dorippus; Limnas klugii Butler, 1886; Danaus chrysippus dorippus ab. evanescens Storace, 1949;

Danaus dorippus, the dorippus tiger, is a butterfly belonging to the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

Systematics and taxonomy

Danaus dorippus was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Danaus chrysippus, the plain tiger or African monarch. It is now regarded as a distinct species. It appears (from analysis of

parasitized at least occasionally by Spiroplasma bacteria which selectively kill off male hosts,^[3] a subsequent scarcity of plain tiger males might have led to this hybridization and the evolution

of the dorippus tiger. From the color pattern of this species, it can be assumed that the ancient lineage had no black apex on the forewings, as this character is still absent in D. dorippus.

Danaus dorippus from
Erythrea
, mounted specimen

Description

Danaus dorippus is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of about 60–80 millimetres (2.4–3.1 in). The body is black with a few white spots. The wings are tawny and have a thin border of black enclosing a series of semicircular white spots. The hindwing has three or four black spots around the center.

This species is mimicked (Batesian mimicry) by the females of Hypolimnas misippus, form inaria,^[4] that has orange forewing tip with white spotting.

Distribution

This species can be found in eastern and southern Africa (mainly in

Erythrea, Oman, Tanzania) and sporadically in India.^[5]

Footnotes

^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
^ Smith et al. (2005)
^ Jiggins et al. (2000)
^ The study of mimicry (Batesian and Müllerian) by temperature experiments on two Tropical butterflies
^ "Forms of Danaus chrysippus on Himlaya" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-18.

References

Smith, David A.S.; Lushai, Gugs & Allen, John A. (2005). A classification of Danaus butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based upon data from morphology and DNA. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00169.x
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Jiggins, F.M.; Hurst, G.D.D.; Jiggins, C.D.; Schulenburg, J.H.G.v.D. & Majerus, M.E.N. (2000). The butterfly Danaus chrysippus is infected by a male-killing Spiroplasma bacterium. Parasitology 120(5): 439–446.
doi:10.1017/S0031182099005867
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External links

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Taxon identifiers
Danaus dorippus

Wikidata: Q2196920

BioLib: 500594

GBIF: 11321812

LepIndex: 147441

Danaus chrysippus dorippus

Wikidata: Q73524196

GBIF: 5881390

iNaturalist: 699730

NCBI: 165864

Open Tree of Life: 688821

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[ATBUT-1] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

[smithetal2005-2] Smith et al. (2005)

[3] Jiggins et al. (2000)

[Wiley-4] The study of mimicry (Batesian and Müllerian) by temperature experiments on two Tropical butterflies

[smet-5] "Forms of Danaus chrysippus on Himlaya" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-18.

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