Parantica, commonly called tigers, is an Old World genus of butterflies in subfamily Danainae of family Nymphalidae. They are found in southeastern Asia, Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Philippines. Many of these species are endemic to islands and considered endangered, vulnerable, or threatened according to the IUCN Red List.[1] For other butterflies called tigers see the genus Danaus.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subtribe: | Danaina |
| Genus: | Parantica Moore, 1880 |
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Parantica are large, slender, black and light blue or white butterflies. The body appears strikingly small and thin compared to the large wings.
Species
editSpecies in alphabetical order:[1][2]
- Parantica aglea (Stoll, 1782) – glassy (blue) tiger
- Parantica agleoides (C. & R. Felder, 1860) – dark glassy tiger
- Parantica albata (Zinken, 1831) – Zinken's tiger
- Parantica aspasia (Fabricius, 1787) – yellow glassy tiger
- Parantica cleona (Stoll, 1782)
- Parantica clinias (Grose-Smith, 1890) – New Ireland yellow tiger
- Parantica crowleyi (Jenner Weir, 1894) – Crowley's tiger
- Parantica dabrerai (Miller & Miller, 1978) – D'Abrera's tiger
- Parantica dannatti (Talbot, 1936) – Dannatt's tiger
- Parantica davidi (Schröder, 1976) – David's tiger
- Parantica fuscela (Parsons, 1989)
- Parantica garamantis (Godman & Salvin, 1888) – angled tiger
- Parantica hypowattan (Morishita, 1981) – Morishita's tiger
- Parantica kirbyi (Grose-Smith, 1894) – Kirby's tiger
- Parantica kuekenthali (Pagenstecher, 1896) – Kuekenthal's yellow tiger
- Parantica luzonensis (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
- Parantica marcia (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) – Biak tiger
- Parantica menadensis (Moore, 1883) – Manado tiger
- Parantica melaneus (Cramer, 1775) – chocolate tiger
- Parantica melusine (Grose-Smith, 1894)
- Parantica milagros (Schröder & Treadaway, 1880) – Milagros' tiger
- Parantica nilgiriensis (Moore, 1877) – Nilgiri tiger
- Parantica pedonga (Fujioka, 1970)
- Parantica philo (Grose-Smith, 1895) – Sumbawa tiger
- Parantica phyle (C. & R. Felder, 1863) – Felder's tiger
- Parantica pseudomelaneus (Moore, 1883) – Javan tiger
- Parantica pumila (Boisduval, 1859) – least tiger
- Parantica rotundata (Grose-Smith, 1890) – fat tiger
- Parantica schenkii (Koch, 1865)
- Parantica schoenigi (Jumalon, 1971) – Father Schoenig's chocolate
- Parantica sita (Kollar, 1844) – chestnut tiger
- Parantica sulewattan (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Bonthain tiger
- Parantica swinhoei (Moore, 1883) – Swinhoe's chocolate tiger
- Parantica taprobana (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Ceylon tiger
- Parantica tityoides (Hagen, 1890) – Sumatran chocolate tiger
- Parantica timorica (Grose-Smith, 1887) – Timor yellow tiger
- Parantica toxopei (Nieuwenhuis, 1969) – Toxopeus' yellow tiger
- Parantica vitrina (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
- Parantica wegneri (Nieuwenhuis, 1960) – Flores tiger
- Parantica weiskei (Rothschild, 1901) – Weiske's tiger
References
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- ^ a b "IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals". www.aworldforbutterflies.com. Archived from the original on 2001-04-30.
- ^ http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/parantica/index.html Parantica
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