Cigaritis elwesi

Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, [1925])


♀, 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' [India].

Distribution : N. India (Sikkim), N. Thailand.

Records taken from Literature

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

Specimens Examined

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

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Notes

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.

Literature

Evans, W. H.,[1925] : The identification of Indian Butterflies (5-8)
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30(1):72-96, pl.21-24 ; (2):322-351, pl.26-27 ; (3):610-639, pl.28 ; (4):726-776, 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.