''Thaumantis klugius'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

. It was described by Johann Zincken in 1831. It is 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 ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''T. k. klugius'' (Borneo, Java) *''T. k. lucipor'' Westwood, 1851 (Peninsular Malaya, Singapore) *''T. k. candika'' (Fruhstorfer, 1905) (Sumatra)

Etymology

The name honours

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist. He described the butterflies and some other insects of Egypt, Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Fr ...

References

External links

''Thaumantis''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Thaumantis Butterflies described in 1831 Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies of Java Taxa named by Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken {{Nymphalidae-stub