Euthalia teuta teuta

Euthalia teuta teuta (Doubleday, 1848)


♂ (ds), Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♀ (ds), Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

♂ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.		♀ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.

♂ (ds), Chaiyaphum, Thailand.		♀ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.

ON : Adolias teuta Doubleday, 1848
OD : Gen. diurn. Lep. (2):291, pl.44, fig.2,♂.
TL : "Sylhet" [southern Khasia Hills, India ;
north of Sylhet, Bangladesh]. (NHML)

Distribution : India (Assam), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.

	● ssp.teuta
	● ssp.affinis
	● ssp.anh
	● ssp.goodrichi
	● ssp.rayana

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Euthalia teuta teuta ; Fruhstorfer,1913 : 680. (Siam)
'Euthalia teuta teuta ; Godfrey,1916 : 131.'
'Euthalia teuta teuta ; Godfrey,1930 : 294. (Prae: Me Song forest) (in part)'
'Euthalia bellata gupta ; Godfrey,1930 : 295. (Prae: Me Song forest) (in part)'
Euthalia teuta gupta ; Pinratana,1979 : 80. (Chaiyaphum) (in part)
Euthalia teuta teuta ; Pinratana & Eliot,1996 : 81, pl.57, figs.155b♂,♀. (Chaiyaphum)
Bassarona teuta teuta ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 454, pl.201, figs.N164a♂,♀. (Phu Khieo)
Euthalia teuta teuta ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 466, pl.206, figs.N330a♂,♂(Un),♀. (Phu Khieo; Mae Hong Son)
Bassarona teuta teuta ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 112, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Phu Khiewo)

[ LAOS ]
Bassarona teuta ssp. ; Motono & Negishi,1989 : 60, pl.71, figs.1,♂,2,♂(Un),3,♀,4,♀(Un). (Vang Vieng)
Euthalia teuta ira ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 207, pl.68, figs.♂,♀. (Vang Vieng; Vientiane)
Euthalia teuta ira ; Nimura & Wakahara,2005 : 43. (Thakhek)
Euthalia teuta teuta ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 46.
Euthalia teuta teuta ; Onodera,2022 : 45, pl.133, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Vientiane: Vang Vieng; Bolikhamxai: Phon Si)

[ VIETNAM ]
Euthalia teuta ; Lemée,1950 : 15. (Hagiang)
Euthalia teuta ; Metaye,1958b : 176. (Dong Nai: Ben Nom / Hagiang)
Bassarona teuta ; Miyazaki, Saito & Saito,2006b : 32, fig.N-97,♂. (Dong Nai: Thac Mai)
Bassarona teuta teuta ; Miyazaki et al.,2010 : 21, fig.N-97,♀. (Lam Dong: Gung Re; Bin Thuan: Dong Tien)
Bassarona teuta teuta ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 41. (N / C / S)
Bassarona teuta teuta ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(2):145, pl.78, figs.1a♂,1b♀. (N: Na Hang; Ba Be / C: Phong Nha-Ke Bang; Kon Ka Kinh / S: Cat Tien; La Nga)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : 11♂ 11♀ (incl. photo).

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

Phetchabun : 6♂ 4♀ (incl. photo).

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

Chaiyaphum : 3♂ 3♀ (incl. photo).

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

Notes

The butterfly is locally common in montane forest at moderate elevations (Alt.500m - 1000m) and frequently comes to rotten fruits that has fallen to the ground.
The records of Godfrey (1916,1930) from 'Prae [Phrae]' are doubtful. I have not seen any specimens from this area, therefore I have excluded it from the distribution map.
I treat the populations of Mae Hong Son and Phetchabun-Chaiyaphum as the same taxon. However, the distribution pattern is somewhat strange. It has isolated distribution in northwestern and central-northern part of the country. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Literature

Doubleday, E.,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.
Longon, Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. xii + ii + 534 pp, 86 pls, In 54 parts. In 2 vols.


♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.	♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.	♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

♂ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.	♀ (ds), Chaiyaphum, Thailand.

♂ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.	♀ (ws), Phetchabun, Thailand.

2007.02.20 - 2023.08.31.