---
title: "Common Tiger Butterfly"
description: "Danaus genutia — Owady i pająki. Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/common-tiger-butterfly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Tiger Butterfly

> Danaus genutia — Owady i pająki. Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India.

- Scientific name: *Danaus genutia*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 13759
- Wikidata: [Q718721](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718721)
- iNaturalist taxon: [146923](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/146923)

## Names

- en: Common Tiger Butterfly
- de: Indischer Monarchfalter
- es: Mariposa tigre
- fr: Monarque indien

## Countries with the most observations

IN (5031), HK (3077), TW (1018), TH (953), SG (626), CN (470), VN (368), ID (355), LK (204), JP (152), KH (133), NP (88)

## Summary

Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India. 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 in India to differentiate it from the equally common plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danaus_genutia

## Photo

![Common Tiger Butterfly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-tiger-butterfly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Vijay Barve · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/43021430

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-tiger-butterfly?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).