Potanthus mara mara  (Evans, 1932)


ON : Padraona mara Evans, 1932
OD : Ident. Ind. Butts. (2nd ed.):404.
TL : Sikkim. (♂, NHML)
Distribution : Kumaon, Sikkim, Assam,
Laos, Vietnam.
Potanthus mara mara map


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
'Potanthus mara mara ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 828, pl.380, fig.262,♂ (Laos). [photo from Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999]'
'Potanthus mara mara ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 96. (by literature)'
'Potanthus mara mara ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 890, pl.411, fig.H259,♂(Laos). [photo from Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999]'

[ LAOS ]
Potanthus mara ; Masui & Uehara,1999 : 19,22, figs.33,♂,♂(Un). (Louang Namtha)
Potanthus mara ssp. ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 225, pl.142, fig.♂. (Nam Tha)
Potanthus mara mara ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 60.
Potanthus mara mara ; Onodera,2022 : 121, pl.258, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Xiengkhouang: Tha; Bolikhamxai: Thabok)

[ VIETNAM ]
Potanthus mara mara ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 174. (Tam Dao; Ba Be; Vu Quang)
Potanthus mara mara ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 83. (N / C)


Notes

Ek-Amnuay,[2007],2012 recorded this species from Thailand (Mae Tha ; Chanthaburi). However, the figured specimen is from Laos. There is no reliable record from Thailand until now. Further distributional research is needed.

The species of this genus are so similar that identification by male genitalia is required. Therefore, records that do not examine the male genitalia cannot be adopted. In addition, although there are many field photos, most are either misidentified or unidentifiable and therefore cannot be used as records.


Literature

Evans, W.H.,1932 : The identification of Indian butterflies. second edition revised.
Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., Madras : 10+454pp, 32 pls, 9f.


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