Neptis jumbah jumbah Moore, [1858]


ON : Neptis jumbah Moore, [1858]
OD : in: Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. East-India Co. 1:167, pl.4a, fig.5,♀.
TL : 'N.India; Darjeeling; Ceylon' [♀ holotype labelled Calcutta] (NHML)
Distribution : N.India to Myanmar, P.Thailand (Ranong dist.).
Neptis jumbah jumbah Map


Type Materials Information

Holotype ♀, Calcutta, India. (NHML)
Allotype ♂, 'Deccan' (NHML)


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; Pinratana,1979 : 47, fig.N77,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; Pinratana & Eliot,1996 : 49, pl.28, fig.70,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 390, pl.169, fig.N73,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 402, pl.174, fig.N248,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 78. (by literature)
Neptis jumbah jumbah ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2023- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Ranong) (accessed: 2023.06.13)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Ranong : 2♂ (photo by A.Giudici).
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Notes

This species is very localized and it has been known only a few records in Thailand.
According to Antonio Giudici, the butterfly is only found in coastal mangrove forests. Further distributional research is needed.


Literature

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.

Eliot, J.N.,1969 : An Analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) Supple.15. London.


Neptis jumbah jumbah ♂ Neptis jumbah jumbah ♀
♂, Ranong, Thailand. (photo by A.Giudici)

2006.02.20 - 2023.06.30.

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