''Tajuria discalis'' is a species of

lycaenid Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

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 ...

Bernard d'Abrera Bernard d'Abrera (28 August 1940 – 13 January 2017) was an Australian entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science, particularly noted for his books on true butterflies (Papilionoidea Butterflies are winged insects from the l ...

(1986) ''Butterflies of the Oriental Region''. Part 3: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae Hill House Publishers It was first described by German entomologist

Hans Fruhstorfer Hans Fruhstorfer (1866 – 1922) was a German explorer, insect and shell trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Adalbert Seitz's ''Macrolepidoptera of t ...

in 1897.

Subspecies

The following subspecies have been described: *''T. d. discalis'' Lesser Sunda Islands *''T. d. floresica'' Murayama, 1983 Flores *''T. d. centralis'' Morinaka & Shinkawa, 1996 Bali *''T. d. triangularis'' Morinaka & Shinkawa, 1996 Java

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q13485738 Tajuria Butterflies described in 1897