''Pratapa deva'', the white royal,
[ is a lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the ]Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
. The species was first described by Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.
It has been said that Mo ...
in 1857.
Description
Subspecies
There are nine subspecies
In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...
:[
*''P. d. deva'' – southern India, Sri Lanka
*''P. d. relata'' (Distant, 1884) – Peninsular Malaya, Singapore
*''P. d. lila'' Moore, ]884
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Year 884 ( DCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* March 1 – Diego Rodríguez Porcelos, count of Castile, founds and repopulates (''repoblación'') Burgos a ...
/small> – northern India, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
*''P. d. devana'' H. H. Druce, 1895 – northern Borneo
*''P. d. devadatta'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – southern Borneo
*''P. d. cartena'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – western Java
*''P. d. methara'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – eastern Java
*''P. d. devula'' Corbet, 1942 – Hong Kong
*''P. d. christina'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1998 – Philippines: Luzon
References
Pratapa
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Singapore
Fauna of Pakistan
Butterflies described in 1857
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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