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

ON : Libythea lepita Moore, [1858] OD : in: Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. East-India Co. 1:240. TL : 'N.India ; "Bootan" [Bhutan]'. (NHML) Distribution : N.India to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, SE.Tibet, S.China.

[ THAILAND ]
Libythea lepita lepita ; Godfrey,1930 : 304. (Me Lamoung)
Libythea celtis lepita ; Pinratana,1988 : 38, pl.42, fig.1,♂. (Chiang Mai)
Libythea celtis lepita ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 500, pl.224, figs.Li1,♂,♂(Un),♀[♂]. (Chiang Dao)
Libythea celtis lepita ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 512, pl.229, figs.N398,♂,♂(Un),♀[♂]. (Chiang Dao)
Libythea lepita lepita ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 23.

[ LAOS ]
Libythea celtis lepita ; Motono & Negishi,1989 : 67, pl.95, figs.3,♂,4,♂(Un). (Vang Vieng; Vientiane; Rock Kao)
Libythea celtis lepita ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 213, pl.103, fig.♂. (Oudomxay)
Libythea celtis lepita ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 50.
Libythea celtis lepita ; Onodera,2022 : 67, pl.198, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un). (Xiengkhouang: Tha; Oudomxai)

[ VIETNAM ]
Libythea lepita lepita ; Metaye,1957 : 92.
Libythea lepita lepita ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 45. (N / C)
Libythea lepita ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):37, pl.1, figs.3a♂,3b♂(Un). (N: Ha Giang; Dong Van; Na Hang; Ba Be / C: Pu Mat; Huong Son; Vu Quang)

[ THAILAND ]
Chiang Mai : 4♂.

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The butterfly is uncommon and localized in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 500 - 700m). I have not been able to find any records from Thailand in the last 20 years.
The populations in the Indo-Chinese region are treated as the nominotypical subspecies, but they appear to be slightly different. Further taxonomic study is needed.

Moore F.,[1858] : in: Horsfield & Moore, A catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. Vol.1.
London, W.H. Allen and Co. v + 278 pp., 12 pls.

Kawahara, A.Y.,2013 : Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae)
Zootaxa 3631(1):1-74.

2007.03.10 - 2024.08.31.