Pedesta fusca fusca

Pedesta fusca fusca (Elwes, 1893)


♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.		♂, Tak, Thailand.

♂ genitalia, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

ON : Halpe fusca Elwes, 1893
OD : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1892(4):653, pl.43, fig.1,♂,♂(Un).
TL : Bernardmyo, Burma. (♂, NHML)

Distribution : Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, S.E.Tibet.

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Inayoshi,1999-2023 : Butterflies in Indo-China, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un). (Chiang Mai; Tak) (31.Jul.2017 last updated ; 31.Jul.2023 changed.)
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 776, pl.356, figs.H117,♂,♂(Un). (Umphang; Mae Hong Son)
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 55. (by literature)
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 826, pl.381, figs.H114,♂,♂(Un). (Umphang; Mae Hong Son)

[ LAOS ]
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 223, pl.137, fig.♂(Un). (Xam Neua)
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 58.

[ VIETNAM ]
Thoressa fusca ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,2002 : 147. (Hoang Lien; Ngoc Linh)
Thoressa fusca ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 77. (N: Lao Cai / C: Kon Thum)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Chiang Mai : 9♂.

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

Tak : 6♂.

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

Notes
The first record from Thailand is the above specimen on 12.Apr.1993 at Omkoi dist., Chiang Mai.
The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 900 - 1300m). Males occasionally come to the banks of streams and puddles to suck water.

Literature

Elwes, H.J.,1893 : On butterflies collected by Mr. W.Doherty in the Naga and Karen Hills and Perak, Part.2.
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1892(4):617-664, pls.43,44.

Huang, H.,2011 : Notes on the genus Thoressa Swinhoe, [1913] from China, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)
Atalanta 42(1-4):193-200.

Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L.,2019 :
A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography
Syst. Entomol. 44:163–178.

Cao, C., H.S., Xu, Y., Wu, H., Chen, T., Wang, M., Da,W. & Fan, X.,2019 :
New records and their associated DNA barcodes of the butterfly family Hesperiidae in Tibet, China
Zootaxa 4674(4):426–438.

1999.09.04 - 2023.07.31.