Tajuria yajna

Tajuria yajna, the chestnut and black royal, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Doherty in 1886. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Tajuria yajna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Tajuria
Species:
T. yajna
Binomial name
Tajuria yajna
(Doherty, 1886)[1]
Synonyms
  • Remelana yajna Doherty, 1886
  • Tajuria cato Druce, 1895
  • Tajuria istroidea de Nicéville, 1887
  • Tajuria selangorana Pendlebury & Corbet, 1933

Subspecies
  • Tajuria yajna yajna (north-western India)
  • Tajuria yajna cato Druce, 1895 (Borneo)
  • Tajuria yajna ellisi Evans, [1925] (Burma, Thailand)
  • Tajuria yajna istroidea de Nicéville, 1887 (Assam)
  • Tajuria yajna selangorana Pendlebury & Corbet, 1933 (Peninsular Malaysia)

Note Yunnan Only one male is known and it shows more similarities to ssp.yajna from N.W. India than to ssp. ellisi Evans from Burma

References
  1. Doherty, W., 1886. A list of butterflies taken in Kumaon. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 55(2): 103–140.
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
  • Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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