Black veined tiger
Topside of D. m. hegesippus
Underside of D. m. edmondii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Danaus
Species:	D. melanippus
Binomial name
Danaus melanippus (Cramer, [1777])
Subspecies
See text

Danaus melanippus, the black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger, is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

It ranges from Assam in eastern India through South-East Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan.^[1][2] It has around 17 subspecies, and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, Danaus affinis.^[2]

Gallery

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:^[3]

• D. m. celebensis (Staudinger, 1889) – northern Sulawesi
• D. m. edmondii (Bougainville, 1837) – Philippines
• D. m. edwardi (van Eecke, 1914) – Simeulue
• D. m. eurydice (Butler, 1884) – Nias
• D. m. haruhasa Doherty, 1891 – Sumbawa - Alor
• D. m. hegesippus (Cramer, [1777]) – Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung
• D. m. indicus (Fruhstorfer, 1899) – eastern India - Thailand, Indo-China
• D. m. keteus (Hagen, 1898) – Mentawai
• D. m. kotoshonis Matsumura, 1929 – Taiwan
• D. m. lotina (Fruhstorfer, 1904) – Natuna Island
• D. m. lotis (Cramer, [1779])
• D. m. melanippus (Cramer, [1777]) – Java
• D. m. meridionigra Martin, [1914] – central Sulawesi
• D. m. nesippus (Felder, 1862) – Nicobars
• D. m. pietersi (Doherty, 1891) – Enggano
• D. m. umbrosus Fruhstorfer, 1906 – Pualu Tello