Real butterfly (The Common Tiger - Danaus genutia) specimen encased in square indestructible lucite block. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Butterfly right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Butterfly from every angle. 

Length of the Butterfly body is 2.5 cm (1 inch) and the wings stretch to 6.2 cm (2.4 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 9.5x9.5x2.5 cm (3.7x3.7x1.0 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the block is 225 g and260 g with packing box.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item.

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The Common Tiger - Danaus genutia

Wingspan: 8 cm

Distribution: China, Sri Lanka, India to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore

It belongs to the "Crows and Tigers", that is, the danainae group of the Brush-footed butterflies family. The butterfly is also called Striped Tiger.

The butterfly closely resembles the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) of the Americas.

The wingspan is 75 to 95 mm. Both sexes of the butterfly have tawny wings with veins marked with broad black bands. The female has a pouch on the hindwing. [2] The margins of the wings are black with two rows of white spots. The underside of the wings resembles the the upperside but is paler in colouration. The male Common Tiger has a prominent black-and-white spot on the underside of the hindwing.

In drier regions the tawny part of the hindwing pales and approaches white in colour making it very similar to the White Tiger Danaus melanippus.

It has some 16 subspecies; its evolutionary relationships are not completely resolved, but it appears to be closest to the Malay Tiger and White Tiger.

The butterfly occurs in scrub jungles, fallowland adjacent to habitation, dry and moist deciduous forests, preferring areas of moderate to heavy rainfall. Also occurs in degraded hill slopes and ridges, both, bare or denuded, and, those covered with secondary growth.

While the butterfly is a strong flier, it never flies rapidly or high. It has stronger and faster strokes than the Plain Tiger. The butterfly ranges forth in search of its host and nectar plants. It visits gardens where it nectars on the flowers of Lantana, Celosia, Adelocaryum, Cosmos, Zinnia and other garden plants.[1]

Members of this genus are leathery, tough to kill and sham death. Since they are unpleasant to smell and taste, they are soon released by the predators, recover and fly off soon thereafter.

Eggs

The butterfly lays its egg singly under the leaves of any of its hostplants of family Asclepiadaceae.

Caterpillar

The caterpillar is black and marked with bluish-white and yellow spots and lines. The caterpillar has three pairs of tentacles on its body. It first eats the eggshell and then proceeds to eat leaves and vegetative parts of the plant.

Chrysalis

The chrysalis or pupa is green and marked with golden yellow spots.

The Common Tiger has the same colouration as the Plain Tiger and indeed, the white and orange forms also occur as in the Plain Tiger.  The veins of this species are strongly marked with black and in the field, the Common Tiger may occasionally be mistaken for the Black Veined Tiger.  The white form, form-intermedius, has white hindwings with the border tinged with orange. 

The form-genutia has the hindwings coloured as in the forewings.  The butterfly is not commonly encountered in Singapore, but is often seen in the urban and sub-urban areas where it may find its host plant, the creeper-weed Raphistemma pulchellum, growing in a patch of undeveloped land. The Common Tiger is attracted to the dried plants of Heliotropium indicum.