Discophora timora

Discophora timora, the great duffer,^[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.

Discophora timora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Discophora
Species:	D. timora
Binomial name
Discophora timora Westwood, 1850

Distribution

The great duffer ranges from Sikkim and Assam in India to Myanmar, Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indochina.^[1]

A subspecies of the butterfly is found as a rare endemic in the Andaman Islands. It was recorded as Discophora continentalis andamanensis, Staudinger by William Harry Evans.^[2]

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
• List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)