Peacock royal

Tajuria cippus

''Tajuria cippus'', the peacock royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.
Peacock Royal (♂) Butterfly (Tajuria cippus) Shot at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, India
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Naming

*''T. c. cippus'' North India, Assam to Thailand
⤷ ''T. c. longinus'' Ceylon, South India
⤷ ''T. c. maxentius'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore
⤷ ''T. c. pseudolonginus'' Java
⤷ ''T. c. theodosius'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Bawean
⤷ ''T. c. frontinus'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Lombok
⤷ ''T. c. bagus'' Nias
⤷ ''T. c. malcolmi'' Riley & Godfrey Hainan

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyLycaenidae
GenusTajuria
SpeciesT. cippus
Photographed in
India