Tajuria yajna, the chestnut and black royal, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Doherty in 1886. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Subspecies
- Tajuria yajna yajna (north-western India)
- Tajuria yajna cato <small>Druce, 1895</small> (Borneo)
- Tajuria yajna ellisi <small>Evans, [1925]</small> (Burma, Thailand)
- Tajuria yajna istroidea <small>de Nicéville, 1887</small> (Assam)
- Tajuria yajna selangorana <small>Pendlebury & Corbet, 1933</small> (Peninsular Malaysia)
Note Yunnan Only one male is known and it shows more similarities to ssp.yajna from N.W. India than to ssp. ellisi Evans from Burma
References
External links
- Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms