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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia.
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The Indomalayan realm extends across the western half of the archipelago, and the eastern half is in the Australasian realm. The Wallace Line, which runs between Borneo and Sulawesi, Bali and Lombok, is the dividing line. The portion of Indonesia west of the Wallace Line is known as the Sundaland bioregion, which also includes Malaysia and Brunei.
The following is a list of all butterflies found in the Indochinese biogeographic region (Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar (formerly Burma; part of British India until 1937), Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore in the Indomalayan realm).
S. South China Sea Islands; South China–Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests; South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests; South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
Most of India falls in the "Indian Subcontinent" bioregion of the Indomalayan realm, which covers most of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. The Hindu Kush , Karakoram , Himalaya , and Patkai ranges bound the bioregion on the northwest, north, and northeast; these ranges were formed by the collision of the northward ...
This page features a list of biogeographic provinces that were developed by Miklos Udvardy in 1975, [1] [2] later modified by other authors. [according to whom?] Biogeographic Province is a biotic subdivision of biogeographic realms subdivided into ecoregions, which are classified based on their biomes or habitat types and, on this page, correspond to the floristic kingdoms of botany.
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