Euploea core amymone

Euploea core amymone (Godart, 1819)


♂ (transition form), Ha Giang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀ (transition form), Ha Giang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Danais amymone Godart, 1819
OD : in Ency. méth. 9(1):179.
TL : 'Amboina' [? S.E.China].

Distribution : N.E.Vietnam, Shanghai, Jiangxi,
Guangdong, Hainan, Hongkong.

	● ssp.godartii
	● transition zone of godartii and amymone
	● transition zone of godartii and graminifera
	● ssp.graminifera

Synonyms

Euploea kinbergi Wallengrén, 1860 : Wien. Ent. Monat. 4:35. TL. China.
Euploea lorquinii C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 : Reise öst. Fregatte Novara. Zool. Theil (2):340-341. TL. China Australis.
Crastia prunosa Moore, 1883 : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883(3):280. TL. China.
Euploea amymone hadrumaia Fruhstorfer, 1911 : in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 9:276. TL. Hainan.
Euploea prunosa tersatica Fruhstorfer, 1911 : in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 9:276. TL. Hainan.

Type Materials Information

hadrumaia ; ♂, Type, Hainan. H.Fruhstorfer (NHML, examined) ; ♀, Type, Hainan. H.Fruhstorfer (NHML, examined)

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Euploea distanti circuita ; Fruhstorfer,1910 : 236. (Tonkin)
Euploea tonkinensis ; Vitalis,1919 : 221. (Tonkin)
Euploea core ab. tonkinensis ; Dubois & Vitalis,1921 : 25. (Tonkin)
'Euploea distanti circuita ; Metaye,1957 : 101. (N / S)'
Euploea core godartii ; Ikeda et al.,1999 : 53, figs.2:10,♂,15,♀,9:9(♂genitalia). (Cuc Phuong) (in part)
Euploea core amymone ; Monastyrskii,2011 : 53-55, pl.7, figs.a♂(Bac Can),b♀(Bac Can). (N: Ba Be; Na Hang; Huu Lien; Ba Vi; Tam Dao; Cat Ba; Cuc Phuong)
Euploea core amymone ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 19. (N)

Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Ha Giang : 2♂ 2♀.

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

Notes

Within the populations of northern Vietnam, individuals of ssp.godartii, f.layardi, ssp.amymone, and intermediate forms are intermixed. Although the typical amymone is more commonly found in northeastern Vietnam, the region spanning from northern to central Vietnam is essentially considered a transitional zone for both taxa. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Literature

Godart, J.B.,1819 : in Latreille & Godart, Encyclopédie Méthodique.
Histoire naturelle Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes
9(1):3-328. Paris.

Wallengrén, H.D.J.,1860 : Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen
Wien ent. Monats. 4(2):33-46.

Felder, C. & Felder, R.,[1865]-1874 : Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair.
Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Zweite Abtheilung: Lepidoptera. Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn.
(1):[4] + 1-136, pls. 1-21 ([12 January 1865]) ; (2):[2] + 137-378, pls. 22-47 ([after October] 1865) ; (3):[2] + 379-536, pls.48-74 ([25 April] 1867) ; (4):[6] + 1-9 [explanation of plates] ([31 December] 1874)

Moore, F.,1883 : A Monograph of Limnaina and Euploeina, two Groups of Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Subfamily Euploeinae; with Descriptions of new Genera and Species. Part I & II
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883(3):253-324, pl.29-32.

Fruhstorfer, H.,1911 : 3. Familie: Danaidae in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9
273-280. (13.Feb.1911)

Morishita, K.,1977 : The genus Euploea in the Orient (Lepidoptera: Danaidae).
Acta Rhopalocerologica, Fukuoka. (2):1-60, 35 pls.

Lang, S.Y.,2012 : The Nymphalidae of China (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Part 1
Libytheinae, Danainae, Calinaginae, Morphinae, Heliconiinae, Nymphalinae, Charaxinae, Apaturinae, Cyrestinae, Biblidinae, Limenitinae
456 pp, 32 col. + 41 black&white pls. Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice.

2023.03.31.