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Pedong Tiger
Parantica pedonga
Parantica pedonga, also known as the Pedong tiger or the Talbot's chestnut tiger, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in North-east India, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet. It was described by Tomoo Fujioka in 1970. This species is monotypic.
From the article Parantica pedonga on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This species is similar to Parantica sita, but the sex brand does not extend to Vein 2. The hindwing stripe in space 1a is usually well developed in Parantica melaneus unlike in pedonga.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 842142.