THAURIA LATHYI SIAMENSIS

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Classification

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Lepidoptera

Family Nymphalidae

Subfamily Morphinae

Tribe Amathusiini

Genus Thauria

Species T.Lathyi

Subspecies T.L. Siamensis

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THAURIA LATHYI
SIAMENSIS

Thauria or the junglekings is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. The butterflies are large and brightly coloured on the dorsal surface. There is a transverse white stripe on the forewing and one or two white apical spots. The hindwing has a broad yellow margin. The ventral wing surfaces are disruptively patterned and look like dead leaves, allowing the butterflies to blend into leaf litter on the forest floor. Cryptic ventral patterns have arisen multiple times in various forest-floor dwelling groups of Nymphalidae.

The jungleking ranges from Manipur to southern Myanmar and Indochina.

A related species, the tufted jungleking (Thauria aliris Fruhstorfer, 1902) occurs in Asia.

Amathusiini is a tribe of the nymphalid butterfly subfamily Morphinae. They are large butterflies. They are sometimes treated as a distinct subfamily Amathusiinae or family Amathusiidae.

The Morphinae are a subfamily of Nymphalidae butterflies that includes the morphos, the owl butterflies, and related lineages. It is either considered a sister group of the Satyrinae, or disassembled and included therein.

THAURIA LATHYI SIAMENSISSiam Jungle Glory

THAURIA LATHYI SIAMENSIS
Siam Jungle Glory