♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Talicada nyseus annamitica Seitz, 1923 OD : Grossschmett. Erde 9:925, pl.145k. TL : Vietnam. Distribution : C. & S.Vietnam. ● ssp.burmana ● ssp.metana ● ssp.macbethi ● ssp.annamitica

[ VIETNAM ]
Talicada nyseus annamitica ; Metaye,1957 : 90. (C)
Talicada metana annamitica ; Saito,2014 : 53-54, figs.1,♂,♂(Un),2,♀,♀(Un). (Dong Nai: Dinh Quan)
Talicada nyseus annamitica ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 49. (C: Khanh Hoa / S: Ba Ria-Vung Tau)
Talicada metana ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 49. (by literature)

[ VIETNAM ]
Dong Nai : 1♂ 1♀.

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This is very rare and localized species. Lo et al. (2017) treated it as a subspecies of nyseus. As noted in Talicada nyseus metana, this taxon may be conspecific with metana. Further distributional and taxonomic studies are needed.

Seitz, A.,1923 : 8. Familie: Lycaenidae in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9
9:921-928. (8.Aug.1923)

Saito, T.,2014 : The record of Talicada metana Riley & Godfrey,1921 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from South Vietnam
Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 66:53-55.

Lo, Y.F.P., Li, F. & Ding, L.,2017 : Description of a new subspecies of Talicada nyseus (Guérin-Méneville,1843) from Hainan, China (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with notes on the genus Talicada Moore,1881
Zootaxa 4269(4):586-592.

1999.06.24 - 2024.06.30.