Tajuria maculata, the spotted royal,[1][2] is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.

[1][2][3][4][5] Initially thought to be occurring in Sikkim to Peninsular Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra.

[2] 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 (Yates 1935), it was confirmed only in 2011 by V.K.

Sarkar et al.[6] This rare butterfly was sighted again in the Nilgiris nearly a century over.

[7] In May 2013, naturalists found eggs and caterpillars of this butterfly in Lakkidy, Wayanad, Keralam.