Cigaritis leechi arooni (Murayama & Kimura, 1990)

Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Up. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Un. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Up. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Un.
♂, Nan, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand.
Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Up. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Un. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Up. Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ Un.
♂, Nan, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand.
Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ genitalia Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ genitalia Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ genitalia Cigaritis leechi arooni ♂ genitalia
♂ genitalia, Nan, Thailand.

ON : Spindasis arooni Murayama & Kimura, 1990
OD : Nature & Insects 25(2):24, fig.19(HT,♀Un).
TL : "Chiengmai" [Chiang Mai], N. Thailand.
Distribution : N. Thailand, Laos.
● ssp.leechi
ssp.arooni
Cigaritis leechi arooni map

Type Material Information

Holotype ♀, "Chiengmai" [Chiang Mai], N.Thialand. (EMBT)


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Spindasis arooni ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 598, pl.270, figs.L180,♂,♂(Un),♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Doi Pha Hom Pok; Doi Phu Kha)
Cigaritis leechi arooni ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 626, pl.283, figs.L205,♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Doi Pha Hom Pok; Doi Phu Kha)
Spindasis arooni ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 148, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un). (Doi Pha Hom Pok; Doi Phu Kha)

[ LAOS ]
Cigaritis arooni ; Nakamura et al.,2009 : 24, figs.3,♂,♂(Un). (Xieng Khuang)
Spindasis leechi arooni ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 53, pl.16, figs.Ly-114,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Phou Samsoum)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Nan : 9♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is quite localized and uncommon in montane forests.
The male genitalia of arooni is the same as those of Cigaritis leechi. Therefore, we consider arooni is conspecific with Cigaritis leechi.


Literature

Murayama, S. & Kimura, Y.,1990 : Some new butterflies from Thailand.
Nature & Insects 25(2):19-24, figs.1-23.

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.


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