♀, 2019.11.19. Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

ON : Spindasis elwesi Evans, 1925 OD : J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30(4):759. TL : 'Kumaon to Assam'. Distribution : Sikkim, N.Thailand.

[ THAILAND ]
Spindasis elwesi ; Saito & Inayoshi,2022b : 28-29, figs.29,♀,29v♀(Un). (Mae Hong Son: Mae Hong Son Dist.)

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : Mae Hong Son Dist., 2019.11.19. 1♀ Y.Inayoshi & A.Giudici (YI).

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This is the first record from Thailand. Hitherto the species has been known only a few specimens from Sikkim in the Natural History Museum London (NHML).
The butterfly was found in montane forests at moderate elevations. Further distributional study is needed.

Evans, W.H.,1925 : The identification of Indian Butterflies (8)
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30(4):756-776, pl.29.

Roy, P.,2016 :
Records of Cigaritis zhengweilie Huang,1998 (Lepidoptera: Theclinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India and Southeastern Tibet, China, And A note on Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, 1925)
Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(13):9568-9573.

Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song. L. & Grishin, N.V.,2023 : Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics
The taxonomic report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11(3):1-93.

♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

2020.01.31 - 2024.08.31.