Chitoria sordida vietnamica

Chitoria sordida vietnamica Nguyen, 1979


♂, Bolikhamxai, Laos. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Bolikhamxai, Laos. (photo by K.Saito)

♂, 1990.04.13, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

ON : Chitoria sordida vietnamica Nguyen, 1979
OD : Rev. fr. ent. (N.S.) 1(1):42-43.
TL : Tonkin. (♂, MNHM)

Distribution : N.W.Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.

Type Materials Information

Holotype ♂, Tonkin (Hoa Binh), 1933. (MNHN) ; Masui,2004 : figs.3,♂,♂(Un)
Allotype ♀, Tonkin (Chong Tho), 1926(?) (MNHN) ; Masui,2004 : figs.4,♀,♀(Un)
Paratypes : 12♂, Hoa-Binh, Tonkin (MNHN) ; 6♂, Bao-Ha, Tonkin. (NHML) ; 2♀, Bao-Ha, Tonkin. (NHML)

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Chitoria vietnamica ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 466, pl.207, figs.N175,♂,♂(Un). (Mae Hong Son)
Chitoria naga ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 488, pl.217, figs.N360,♂,♂(Un). (Mae Hong Son)
Chitoria naga ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 123. (Mae Hong Son by literature) (in part)

[ LAOS ]
Chitoria vietnamica ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 208, pl.72, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀. (Lak Sao)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Masui,2004 : 246-248, figs.7,♂(Up & Un),8,♀(Up & Un). (Lak Sao)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 47.

[ VIETNAM ]
Apatura sordida f.sordida ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 45. (Tonkin)
Apatura sordida sordida ; Metaye,1957 : 98. (N)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Masui,2004 : 246-248, figs.3,♂(HT),♂(HT,Un). (N: Hoa-Bin; Chong Tho; Bao-Ha; Mt.Pia Oak)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Masui,2011 : 55, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (C: Deo Ngoan Muc, Ninh Thuan)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 43. (N / C: to Lam Dong)
Chitoria sordida vietnamica ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):62-63, pl.5, figs.2a♂,2b♂(Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Ba Be; Mau Son / C)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : Mae Hong Son dist., 1990.04.13. 1♂, P.Sukkit (YI)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

[ LAOS ]
Bolikhamxai : 1♂ 1♀.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Notes

The butterfly is rare in Thaiand. The specimen from Mae Hong Son shown above is the first and only record of this until now.

Literature

Nguyen, T.H.,1979 : La variation geographique de Chitoria sordida (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
Rev. fr. ent. (n.s.) 1(1):42-45.

Masui, A.,2004 : A revision on Chitoria sordida and C.naga (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 55(4):243-250.

Masui, A.,2011 : A new record of Chitoria sordida vietnamica Nguyen, 1979 from central Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Apaturinae)
Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 57:55.

2007.09.20 - 2021.10.31.