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Tiger Butterflies
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Tiger Butterflies

Danaina

The Danaini are a tribe of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). Their type genus Danaus contains the well-known monarch butterfly (D. plexippus) and is also the type genus of the tribe's subfamily, the milkweed butterflies (Danainae).

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4 branches of this group, most-observed first

Tiger Milkweed Butterflies

genusDanaus

Blue Tiger Butterflies

genusTirumala

Parantica

genusParantica

Tiradelphe

genusTiradelphe

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 522900.