| Chestnut Tiger | |
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| Scientific Name | Parantica sita |
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| Describer | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Class | Unknown |
| Order | Lepidoptera |
| Family | Nymphalidae |
| Distribution | Himalayas and into the Malayan region |
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| Size | 80~100mm |
| Alternative Names | |
| Regional Names |  (ă˘ăľăŽăă㊠asagimadara) (大羚ćčś)
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The Chestnut Tiger (Parantica sita) is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Crows and Tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the Brush-footed butterflies family.
life cycle[]
larva[]
On emergence a dirty white colour with transverse lines on each segment, two somewhat long and thin tentacles or processes on the third, and two shorter ones on the twelfth segment. When full-fed the larva is about an inch and a half long, the ground-colour is of a pale yellowish green, with two rows of dorsal and a row on each side of lateral yellow spots, the head is black with grey spots on the face, the legs black.
pupa[]
The pupa is pale emerald-green with golden-yellow spots.the adult emerges the next April
foodplants[]
The larval foodplants include Asclepias, Cynanchum, Heterostemma, Hoya, Marsdenia, Metaplexis, Stephanotis and Tylophora.
subspecies[]
- P. s. ethologa (Swinhoe, 1899).
- P. s. melanosticta Morishita, 1994.
- P. s. niphonica (Moore, 1883)
- P. s. oblita (Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979)
- P. s. sita
- P. s. tytia (Gray, 1846)
mimics[]
it is mimicked by
- Calinaga.sp
- Hestina nama
- Cyclosia notabilis
- Aldania imitans