Dark blue tiger
The dark blue tiger is a large butterfly from India and South-east Asia. Its dark wings are covered in pale blue streaks and spots. It is a great traveller and flies long distances with huge crowds of other butterflies.
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Fun facts
In southern India it makes up 78 out of every 100 butterflies on the move during the migration season.
Males and females migrate in the same numbers.
Butterflies that grow up in some places get bigger wings, which helps them fly far.
It looks a lot like the blue tiger, but it is darker and its blue markings are narrower.
Most asked questions about Dark blue tiger
?Does the dark blue tiger migrate?
Yes. In southern India huge numbers of dark blue tigers travel together during the migration season.
?How big is the dark blue tiger?
Its wings are about 8 to 11.5 centimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tirumala septentrionis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tirumala septentrionis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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