Papilio prexaspes duboisi

Papilio prexaspes duboisi Vitalis, 1914


♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)		♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)

♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)		♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)

ON : Papilio hipponous var. duboisi Vitalis, 1914
OD : In: Dubois & Vitalis, Annls. Soc. ent. Belg. 58: 149.
TL : 'Thado, Annam' [Nong Het, Laos].

Distribution : Laos, Vietnam.

	● ssp.pitmani
	● ssp.intricatus
	● ssp.duboisi
	● ssp.andamanicus
	● ssp.prexaspes

Synonym

Papilio hipponous var. montpezati Vitalis, 1919; Essai d'un Traité D'Entomologie Indochinoise : 213–214; TL: 'Thado, Annam' [Nong Het, Laos].

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Papilio hipponous duboisi: Metaye,1957 : 82. (C)
Papilio fuscus prexaspes: Metaye,1957 : 82. (S)
Princeps prexaspes duboisi: Hancock,1992 : 4, figs.1,♂,♂(Un). (S: Trang Bom Forest)
Papilio prexaspes duboisi: Cotton & Racheli,2006 : 152–153. (Dong Nai)
Papilio prexaspes montpezati: Monastyrskii,2007 : 57–59, pl.14, figs.2a♂,2b♂(Un),2c♂,2d♂(Un). (S: Phuoc Buu; Dinh Quan; Trang Bom; Cat Tien)
Papilio prexaspes duboisi: Miyazaki et al.,2007c : 37, figs.Pa-37,♂,♀. (Dong Nai: Thac Mai)
Papilio prexaspes duboisi: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 12. (C; S)

Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Cochin China-Annam border : 2♂ (NHML).

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Lam Dong : 2♂.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Dong Nai : 8♂ 1♀.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Notes

The butterfly is rather localized and found in forests at low to moderate elevations (200–1200 m a.s.l.).
Two specimens were captured at Di Linh, Lam Dong, 1200m; one is the same as the population in Dong Nai, but the other is considered identical to ssp.pitmani. This is very interesting, either these are variations of duboisi or ssp.pitmani is entering this area. Furthermore, there are two male specimens in the NHML that were collected in "Cochinchina–Annam border". They are closer to variation of pitmani and differ from the specimens shown above.
The type locality of 'Thado, Annam' is considered to be Nong Het, Laos (Cotton & Racheli [2007]: 282). I tentatively treat the populations from C. & S. Vietnam as duboisi, but further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Literature

Vitalis de Salvaza, R, 1914. In: Dubois, E. & R. Vitalis de Salvaza, Contribution a la "Faune Entomologique de l'Indochine Francaise".
Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, 58: 146–151.

Vitalis de Salvaza, R, 1919. Essai d'un Traité d'entomologie Indochinoise.
Imprimerie Minsang dit T.B. Cay, Hanoi, xi + 308 pp., 5 pls., (pp. 210–240).

Hancock, D.L, 1992. The Princeps fuscus complex (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae).
Australian entomological Magazine, 19(1): 1–8.

Monastyrskii, A.L. & Devyatkin, A.L, 2003. New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam, 2 (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera).
Atalanta, 34(1/2): 75–109, 5 pls.

Cotton, A.M. & Racheli, T, [2007]. Preliminary Annotated Checklist of the Papilionidae of Laos with Notes on Taxonomy, Phenology, Distribution and Variation (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea).
Fragmenta Entomologica, 38(2): 279–378.

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