♂, Lai Chau, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Lai Chau, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)
♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

ON : Argynnis childreni Gray, 1831 OD : Zool. Miscell. 1831:33. TL : "Nepaul" [Nepal]. Distribution : Nepal to Myanmar, N.Thailand, N.Vietnam, W.China. [? Laos ]

Argynnis childreni binghami Oberthür, 1912 : Étud. Lép. comp. 6:314-315, pl.103, fig.966,♂. TL. "Shillong" [Shillong, Meghalaya, India].

[ THAILAND ]
Childrena childreni childreni : Kimura,1994 : 18, figs.5,♂,6,♂(Un). (Chiang Mai: Chiang Dao)
Childrena childreni childreni : Pinratana,1996 : 19, pl.4, figs.7,♀,♂(Un). (Chiang Mai)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 354, pl.151, figs.N7,♂,♂(Un). (Chiang Dao)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 382, pl.164, figs.N210,♂,♂(Un). (Chiang Dao)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 46, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Doi Chiang Dao)

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Argynis [sic] childreni f. childreni ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 36. (Laos)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 205, not fig. (list only)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 44.

[ VIETNAM ]
Argynnis childreni ; Vitalis,1919 : 227. (Tonkin)
Argynis [sic] childreni f. childreni ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 36. (Tonkin: Chapa)
Argynnis childreni childreni ; Metaye,1957 : 94. (N)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 31. (N: Lao Cai)
Childrena childreni childreni ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):169-171, pl.20, figs.3a♂,3b♂(Un). (N: Hoang Lien)

[ THAILAND ]
Chiang Mai : 1♂.

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The butterfly is rare in the montane glasslands at high elevations.
In Thailand, only a few specimens have been obtained from the top of Doi Chiang Dao, however these are all old records only, and may have been extinct together with Bhutanitis lidderdalii ocellatomaculata by the large forest fires of the 1980s. Further habitat surveys are needed.

Gray, G.R.,1831 : Description of eight new species of Indian Butterflies from the collection of General Hardwike.
Zool. Miscell. (J.E.Gray) 1831:32-33.

Oberthür, C.,1912 : Explication des Planches Publiees dans le Volume VI.
Étud. Lép. comp. 6:309-355.

de Moya, R.S., Savage, W.K., Tenney, C., Bao, X., Wahlberg, N. & Hill, R.I.,2017 :
Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies
Syst. Ent. 42(4):635-649.

2007.10.20 - 2021.11.30.