Parasarpa zulema

Parasarpa zulema (Doubleday,[1848])


♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♂, Tak, Thailand.

♂, Tak, Thailand.		♂, Nan, Thailand.

ON : Limenitis zulema Doubleday,[1848]
OD : Gen. diurn. Lep. (2):276, pl.34, fig.1.
TL : India.

Distribution :
Bhutan, Sikkim, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, N.Vietnam.

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Sumalia zulema ; Miyata & Hanafusa,1994 : 1, pl.4, fig.6,♂. (Mae Hong Son)
Sumalia zulema ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 412, pl.180, figs.N118,♂,♂(Un),♀. (Mae Sariang / Umphang)
Sumalia zulema ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 422, pl.184, figs.N284,♂,♂(Un),♀. (Mae Sariang / Umphang)
Sumalia zulema ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 92, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Umphang)

[ VIETNAM ]
Limenitis zulema f.zulema ; Dubois & Vitalis de Salvaza,1924 : 41. (Tonkin: Chapa)
Limenitis zulema ; Metaye,1957 : 97. (N)
Sumalia zulema ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 36. (N: Lao Cai / C: Ha Tinh)
Sumalia zulema ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 2:39-40, pl.39, figs.2a,♂,2b,♂(Un). (N: Hoang Lien ; Van Ban / C: Vu Quang)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : 3♂ 1♀.

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

Tak : 7♂ (incl.photo).

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

Nan : 2♂.

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

[ LAOS ]
Xaignabouri : 1990.04.--. 1♂. P.Sukkit (YI).

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

Notes
This is the first record from Laos.
The butterfly is locally common in montane forest at moderate elevations (alt.900m - 1300m).

Literature

Doubleday, E. & W.C. Hewitson,1846-1852 : The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera,
comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus ;
illustrated with 86 plates by W.C.Hewitson.
Longon, Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. xii + ii + 534 pp, 86 pls, In 54 parts. In 2 vols.

Miyata, T. & H.Hanafusa,1994 : Newly recorded butterflies from North Thailand (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Futao 17:1-2, pl.4.

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

2007.03.10 - 2020.10.31.