Tajuria maculata
Tajuria maculata, the spotted royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.Distribution
Initially thought to be occurring in Sikkim to Peninsular Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra. Though there was a single specimen record of T. maculata from south India with
the de Nicéville collection, that Stokes Roberts took from the Nilgiris district, northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Western Ghats, it was confirmed only in 2011 by V.K. Sarkar et al.Description
In 1865, William Chapman Hewitson described this butterfly as:
The larvae feed on Dendrophthoe spp., Loranthus spp. and Viscum spp.
