# Parantica

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***Parantica***, commonly called **tigers**, is an [Old World](/source/Old_World) genus of [butterflies](/source/Butterflies) in subfamily [Danainae](/source/Danainae) of family [Nymphalidae](/source/Nymphalidae). They are found in [southeastern Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia), [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), [Papua-New Guinea](/source/Papua-New_Guinea), and the [Philippines](/source/Philippines). Many of these species are endemic to islands and considered endangered, vulnerable, or threatened according to the [IUCN Red List](/source/IUCN_Red_List).[1] For other butterflies called tigers see the genus *[Danaus](/source/Danaus_(genus))*.

*Parantica* are large, slender, black and light blue or white butterflies. The body appears strikingly small and thin compared to the large wings.

## Species

Species in alphabetical order:[1][2]

- *[Parantica aglea](/source/Parantica_aglea)* (Stoll, 1782) – glassy (blue) tiger
- *[Parantica agleoides](/source/Parantica_agleoides)* (C. & R. Felder, 1860) – dark glassy tiger
- *[Parantica albata](/source/Parantica_albata)* (Zinken, 1831) – Zinken's tiger
- *[Parantica aspasia](/source/Parantica_aspasia)* (Fabricius, 1787) – yellow glassy tiger

- *[Parantica cleona](/source/Parantica_cleona)* (Stoll, 1782)
- *[Parantica clinias](/source/Parantica_clinias)* (Grose-Smith, 1890) – New Ireland yellow tiger
- *[Parantica crowleyi](/source/Parantica_crowleyi)* (Jenner Weir, 1894) – Crowley's tiger
- *[Parantica dabrerai](/source/Parantica_dabrerai)* (Miller & Miller, 1978) – D'Abrera's tiger
- *[Parantica dannatti](/source/Parantica_dannatti)* (Talbot, 1936) – Dannatt's tiger
- *[Parantica davidi](/source/Parantica_davidi)* (Schröder, 1976) – David's tiger
- *[Parantica fuscela](/source/Parantica_fuscela)* (Parsons, 1989)
- *[Parantica garamantis](/source/Parantica_garamantis)* (Godman & Salvin, 1888) – angled tiger
- *[Parantica hypowattan](/source/Parantica_hypowattan)* (Morishita, 1981) – Morishita's tiger
- *[Parantica kirbyi](/source/Parantica_kirbyi)* (Grose-Smith, 1894) – Kirby's tiger
- *[Parantica kuekenthali](/source/Parantica_kuekenthali)* (Pagenstecher, 1896) – Kuekenthal's yellow tiger
- *[Parantica luzonensis](/source/Parantica_luzonensis)* (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
- *[Parantica marcia](/source/Parantica_marcia)* (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) – Biak tiger
- *[Parantica menadensis](/source/Parantica_menadensis)* (Moore, 1883) – Manado tiger
- *[Parantica melaneus](/source/Parantica_melaneus)* (Cramer, 1775) – chocolate tiger
- *[Parantica melusine](/source/Parantica_melusine)* (Grose-Smith, 1894)
- *[Parantica milagros](/source/Parantica_milagros)* (Schröder & Treadaway, 1880) – Milagros' tiger
- *[Parantica nilgiriensis](/source/Parantica_nilgiriensis)* (Moore, 1877) – Nilgiri tiger
- *[Parantica pedonga](/source/Parantica_pedonga)* (Fujioka, 1970)

- *[Parantica philo](/source/Parantica_philo)* (Grose-Smith, 1895) – Sumbawa tiger
- *[Parantica phyle](/source/Parantica_phyle)* (C. & R. Felder, 1863) – Felder's tiger
- *[Parantica pseudomelaneus](/source/Parantica_pseudomelaneus)* (Moore, 1883) – Javan tiger
- *[Parantica pumila](/source/Parantica_pumila)* (Boisduval, 1859) – least tiger
- *[Parantica rotundata](/source/Parantica_rotundata)* (Grose-Smith, 1890) – fat tiger
- *[Parantica schenkii](/source/Parantica_schenkii)* (Koch, 1865)
- *[Parantica schoenigi](/source/Parantica_schoenigi)* (Jumalon, 1971) – Father Schoenig's chocolate
- *[Parantica sita](/source/Parantica_sita)* (Kollar, 1844) – chestnut tiger

- *[Parantica sulewattan](/source/Parantica_sulewattan)* (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Bonthain tiger
- *[Parantica swinhoei](/source/Parantica_swinhoei)* (Moore, 1883) – Swinhoe's chocolate tiger

- *[Parantica taprobana](/source/Parantica_taprobana)* (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – Ceylon tiger
- *[Parantica tityoides](/source/Parantica_tityoides)* (Hagen, 1890) – Sumatran chocolate tiger
- *[Parantica timorica](/source/Parantica_timorica)* (Grose-Smith, 1887) – Timor yellow tiger
- *[Parantica toxopei](/source/Parantica_toxopei)* (Nieuwenhuis, 1969) – [Toxopeus](/source/Lambertus_Johannes_Toxopeus)' yellow tiger
- *[Parantica vitrina](/source/Parantica_vitrina)* (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Filipino glassy tiger
- *[Parantica wegneri](/source/Parantica_wegneri)* (Nieuwenhuis, 1960) – Flores tiger
- *[Parantica weiskei](/source/Parantica_weiskei)* (Rothschild, 1901) – Weiske's tiger

## References

1. ["IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals"](https://web.archive.org/web/20010430035523/http://www.aworldforbutterflies.com/IUCNRedList_Nym.htm). *www.aworldforbutterflies.com*. Archived from [the original](http://www.aworldforbutterflies.com/IUCNRedList_Nym.htm) on 2001-04-30.

1. [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/parantica/index.html](http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/parantica/index.html) Parantica

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