Tajuria albiplaga, the pallid royal , is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. [2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Tajuria |
| Species: | T. albiplaga
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| Binomial name | |
| Tajuria albiplaga de Niceville, 1887 [1]
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Subspecies edit
- T. a. albiplaga Sikkim, Assam
- T. a. pallescens Druce, [1903] Assam, Burma, Thailand
- T. a. alixae Eliot, 1973 Peninsular Malaya
- T. a. tura de Nicéville, 1895 Java, Sumatra
References edit
- ^ de Nicéville, 1887 Descriptions of some new or little-known Butterflies from India, with some Notes on the seasonal Dimorphism obtaining in the Genus Melanitis Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 (3) : 448-467, pl. 39-40
- ^ Bernard d'Abrera (1986) Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Part 3: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae Hill House Publishers ISBN 0-9593639-4-7