Discophora timora is a animal in the Nymphalidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Discophora timora

Discophora timora

Discophora timora, the great duffer, is a South Asian brush-footed butterfly with a range spanning from India to Southeast Asia.

Family
Genus
Discophora
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Discophora timora

Discophora timora, commonly known as the great duffer, is a species of butterfly that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). This butterfly is native to South Asia. The distribution of the great duffer stretches from Sikkim and Assam in India, through Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina, peninsular Malaysia, to Singapore. A subspecies of this butterfly is a rare endemic restricted to the Andaman Islands. William Harry Evans recorded this subspecies under the name Discophora continentalis andamanensis, Staudinger.

Photo: (c) Cheongweei Gan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Cheongweei Gan · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Discophora

More from Nymphalidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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