Tagiades waterstradti talanga

Tagiades waterstradti talanga Evans, 1949


♂ (ds), 2017.01.13. Yala, Thailand.		♀, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

♂ (ws), Yala, Thailand.		♂ (ws, bred), Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

♂ (ws, bred), Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Sophonviwatkul)

ON : Tagiades waterstradti talanga Evans, 1949
OD : Cat. Hesp. Europ. Asia Austr. Brit. Mus : 145.
TL : Gunung Talang, Sumatra. (NHML)

Distribution : P.Thailand (Yala: Betong), W.Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo (Sarawak)

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
'Tagiades waterstradti ; Evans,1926 : 72. (P)'
'Tagiades waterstradti ; Godfrey,1930 : 362. (by literature, Evans,1926)'
'Tagiades waterstradti ; Godfrey,1932a : 275. (by literature, Evans,1926)'
Tagiades waterstradti ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 47. (by literature)
Tagiades waterstradti talanga ; Saito & Inayoshi,2018 : 39, figs.121,♂,♂(Un). (Yala)
Tagiades waterstradti talanga ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2019- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Yala) (accessed: 2023.06.08)
Tagiades toba toba ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2023- : Butterflies of Thailand, fig.♀. (Yala) (in part) (accessed: 2023.06.08)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Yala (Betong dist.) : 9♂ 1♀ (incl. photo by S.Atdhabhan & S.Sophonviwatkul).
2015.08.26. 1♂, S.Atdhabhan (photo) ; 2017.01.13. 1♂, Y.Inayoshi (YI)

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

Notes

This is the first reliable record from Thailand. Satawan Atdhabhan took a photo in Betong dist., Yala on 26.August.2015. As Kimura et al. (2011) pointed out, The records of Evans (1926) and Godfrey (1930, 1932) are supposed to be Tagiades ultra or Tagiades litigiosa.
The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 800 - 1000m). Both sexes visit flowers. They often fly out from bushes along the trail and rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread.
The female is very similar to those of the female of Tagiades ultra, except for the hair tuft on the tip of the abdomen. T. waterstradti has a white tuft, whereas ultra has a grey one.

Literature

Evans, W.H.,1926 : The Identification of Indian Butterflies (Part. IX-XI)
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31(1):49-83, pl.30, (2):427-446, pl.31, (3):615-637, pl.32.

Evans, W.H.,1949 : A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History).
i-xix+1-502, pls.1-35. London.

♂, 2015.08.26. Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

2017.05.31 - 2023.12.31.