Limenitis asura idita (Moore, 1858)

Limenitis asura idita ♂ Up. Limenitis asura idita ♂ Un. Limenitis asura idita ♂ Up. Limenitis asura idita ♂ Un.
♂, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan) ♂, Narathiwat, Thailand. (photo by A.Giudici)

ON : Athyma idita Moore, 1858
OD : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1858: 16, pl.51, fig.3,♂.
TL : 'Java ?' (NHML)
Distribution : S.Myanmar, P.Thailand (south of Phang Nga), W.Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java.
● ssp.asura
● ssp.idita
Limenitis asura idita Map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
'Athyma asura idita: Pinratana,1979 : 55, figs.N96b,♂,♂(Un). (no data)'
'Athyma asura idita: Pinratana & Eliot,1996 : 58, pl.37, figs.100b,♂,♂(Un). (no data)'
'Athyma asura idita: Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 402, pl.175, figs.N104b,♂,♂(Un). (P)'
'Athyma asura idita: Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 412, pl.179, figs.N269b,♂,♂(Un). (no data)'
Athyma asura idita: Kimura et al.,2016 : 86, not fig. (Than To WF.)
Athyma asura idita: Küppers & Janikorn,2020 : 56, fig.Abb.N-317. (Phang Nga)
Limenitis asura idita: Sophonviwatkul et al.,2020– : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Yala) (accessed: 2023.09.22)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Yala : 1♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Narathiwat : 1♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is uncommon in lowland forests (100–350 m a.s.l.).


Literature

Moore, F, 1858. Monograph of the Asiatic Species of Neptis and Athyma, two genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae.
Proceedings of the zoological Society of London, 1858(26): 3–20, Annulosa pls. 49–51.

Wu, L-W, Chiba, H, Lees, D.C, Ohsima, Y. & Jeng, M-L, 2019. Unravelling relationships among the shared stripes of sailors:
Mitogenomic phylogeny of Limenitidini butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae,Limenitidinae), focusing on the genera Athyma and Limenitis.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 130(2019): 60–66.


Limenitis asura idita ♂
♂, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

2006.02.20 - 2023.09.30.

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