Cupido argiades diporides (Chapman, 1909)

Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Un. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Un.
♂, Loei, Thailand. ♀, Loei, Thailand.
Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Un. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Un.
♂, Loei, Thailand. ♀, Loei, Thailand.
Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Un. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Up. Cupido argiades diporides ♀ Un.
♂ (dsf), Champasak, Laos. ♀, Xieng Khouang, Laos. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Everes argiades var. diporides Chapman, 1909
OD : Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 56(3/4)(Proc.):lxxxii-lxxxiii, pl.A, fig.7; pl.C, fig.2(genitalia).
TL : 'Khasya district', [India].
Distribution : Himalayas to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, S.China.
Cupido argiades diporides map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Everes argiades diporides ; Pinratana,1981 : 39, 161, pl.30, fig.5,♀(Un) ; pl.35, figs.10,♂,15,♂(Un). (Loei; Khon Kaen)
'Everes argiades diporides ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 558, pl.253, fig.L70,♂(Un,Laos).'
Everes argiades diporides ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 574, pl.259, figs.L95,♂,♂(Un). (Loei)
Everes argiades diporides ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 183, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Phu Kradung)
Everes argiades diporides ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2015- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Phetchabun) (accessed: 2020.10.05)

[ LAOS ]
Everes argiades diporides ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 214, pl.108, fig.♂(Un). (Xiang Khouang)
Everes argiades diporides ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 51.

[ VIETNAM ]
Everes argiades ; Metaye,1957 : 90. (C)
Everes argiades diporides ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 49. (C)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Loei : 10♂ 3♀ (incl. photo).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


[ LAOS ]
Xiang Khouang : 1♂ 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Champasak : 2♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is locally common in montane grassland at moderate elevations (Alt. 800 - 1200m). Males frequently come to the banks of streams and puddles to suck water.
In general, taxon diporides in India has a wide black marginal band on the UpF. However, populations in the Indo-China region have a much narrower black marginal band, as Kimura et al. (2014) pointed out. I provisionally treat these as ssp.diporides, further taxonomic study is needed.


Literature

Chapman, T.A.,1909 : A Mimetic Group of Indian Celastrinids (Cyaniris) and Everids.
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 56(3/4):lxxxi-lxxxiv, pls.A,B.C.

Gorbunov, P.Y.,2001 : The Butterflies of Russia: Classification, Genitalia, Keys for Identification (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea).
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, "Thesis", Ekaterinburg, Russia. 320 pp.


Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Cupido argiades diporides ♀
♂, Loei, Thailand. ♀, Loei, Thailand.
Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Cupido argiades diporides ♀
♂, Loei, Thailand. ♀, Loei, Thailand.
Cupido argiades diporides ♂ Cupido argiades diporides ♀
♂, Loei, Thailand. ♀, Loei, Thailand.

1999.06.24 - 2024.10.31.

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