Tajuria yajna, the Purple royal, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Doherty in 1886. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
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- Tajuria yajna yajna (north-western India)
- Tajuria yajna cato Druce, 1895 (Borneo)
- Tajuria yajna ellisi Evans, [1925] (Burma, Thailand)
- Tajuria yajna istroidea de Nicéville, 1887 (Assam)
- Tajuria yajna selangorana Pendlebury & Corbet, 1933 (Peninsular Malaysia)
Note Yunnan Only one male is known and it shows more similarities to ssp.yajna from N.W. India than to ssp. ellisi Evans from Burma
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Wikispecies has information related to Tajuria yajna.
- Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms