Aurivittia cameroni  (Distant, 1882)

Aurivittia cameroni ♂ Up. Aurivittia cameroni ♂ Un. Aurivittia cameroni ♀ Up. Aurivittia cameroni ♀ Un.
♂, Yala, Thailand. ♀, Ranong, Thailand.
Aurivittia cameroni ♂ Up. Aurivittia cameroni ♂ Un. Aurivittia cameroni ♀ Up. Aurivittia cameroni ♀ Un.
♂, Ranong, Thailand. ♀, Ranong, Thailand.
Aurivittia cameroni ♂ genitalia Aurivittia cameroni ♂ genitalia Aurivittia cameroni ♂ genitalia Aurivittia cameroni ♂ genitalia
♂ genitalia, Ranong, Thailand.

ON : Plesioneura cameroni Distant, 1882
OD : Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)10:248.
TL : Penang ; Province Wellesley.
Distribution : P.Thailand (Ranong and Southward),
S.Myanmar, Langkawi, W.Malaysia, Tioman, Aur.
Aurivittia cameroni map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Celaenorrhinus cameroni ; Pendlebury,1923 : 47. (Nakhon Sri Thammarat: Tai Sai River)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittata cameroni ; Godfrey,1930 : 359. (Nakhon Sri Thammarat: Tai Sai River; Wang Sai)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittata cameroni ; Godfrey,1932a : 274. (P)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Evans,1949 : 107. (P)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Pinratana,1985 : 29, pl.12, fig.42b♂. (Ranong; Nakhon Sri Thammarat; Trang; Yala)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 754, pl.345, fig.H55b,♂[♀]. (Yala)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Les Day,2011-2022 : Samui Butterflies, fig.[♀]. (Koh Samui) (accessed: 2023.04.23)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 36, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Kam Puan; Muang Shone; Khlong Naka; Kao Luang; Ka Chong; Thaleban; Than To WF.)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus cameroni ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 802, pl.370, figs.H53b♂[♀],♂(Un). (Yala)
Celaenorrhinus cameroni ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2015- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Ranong; Yala) (accessed: 2023.05.01)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Ranong : 19♂ 4♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Surat Thani : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Nakhon Si Thammarat : 4♂ 2♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Yala : 6♂ 1♀ (incl. photo & photo by S.Atdhabhan).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

A new genus Aurivittia Grishin, 2019 was proposed for Plesioneura aurivittata, its close relative Plesioneura cameroni and Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus on the basis of molecular analysis and morphology.
The butterfly is locally common in montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 30 - 800m). Both sexes visit flowers. They often fly out from bushes along the trail and rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread.


Literature

Distant, W.L.,1882 : Undescribed Rhopalocera from the Malay Peninsula.
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)10:245-248.

Devyatkin, A.L.,1998 : Hesperiidae of Vietnam 3.
A new species of Celaenorrhinus Hübner,1819 from Vietnam, with revisional notes on the C.aurivitttata (Moore,1879) group (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Neue Ent. Nachr. 44:289-294, col.pl.301.

Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J. & Grishin, N.V.,2019 : Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
Insecta Mundi 0731: 1-56.


Aurivittia cameroni Aurivittia cameroni
♂ + ♀, Yala, Thailand. ♂ + ♀, Yala, Thailand.
Aurivittia cameroni
♂, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

1999.07.31 - 2023.05.31.

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