Orange Tiger
DANAINAE, NYMPHALIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 29 June 2004)
Danaus genutia intermedia
(Photo: courtesy of
Khew Sin Khoon)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 29 June 2004)
Danaus genutia intermedia
(Photo: courtesy of
Khew Sin Khoon)
The Caterpillar of this species is varies incolour from beige to black. It has pale spots and transverse bands. It has a pair of long tentacles on the thorax, and shorter pairs behind the thorax and on the tail. It grows to a length of about 3 cms. It feeds on various plants from the family ASCLEPIADACEAE including :
The adult butterflies are orange with wide black borders around the wings, and a variable number of white spots in the black tips of the forewings. The wingspan is about 6 cms.
The eggs are bullet shaped and have a height of about 0.7 mm. They are cream coloured and laid singly on the underside of older leaves and stems of a foodplant.
The species occurs as several subspecies throughout south-east Asia, including :
and includes alexis in the north-west of Australia.
Further reading :
C.E. Meyer, Notes on the Life History of Danaus genutia alexis (Waterhouse and Lyell) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae), The Australian Entomologist, Volume 22, Part 4 (November 1995), pp. 137-139.
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