Elymnias esaca esaca

Elymnias esaca esaca (Westwood, 1851)

ON : Melanitis esaca Westwood, 1851
OD : In: Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. 2(45): 405.
TL : 'East Indies' [loc. err. = W.Malaysia].

Distribution : P.Thailand (Yala), W.Malaysia, {Singapore}.

	● ssp.andersonii
	● ssp.esaca

Synonyms

Elymnias godferyi Distant, 1883 : Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)12: 351. TL. Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula.
Dyctis esacoides Nicéville, 1893 : J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7(3): 323-352, pl.H, fig.2,♂. TL. Perak, Malay Peninsula. (NZC)

Type Material Information

esacoides ; ♂ Type, Perak. (NZC) ; Sheela et al.,2019 : 193, figs.♂,♂(Un).

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Elymnias esaca andersonii ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 238, pl.91, figs.S15,♂,♂(Un). (Than To) (in part)
Elymnias esaca andersonii ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 238, pl.91, figs.N51,♂,♂(Un). (Than To) (in part)
Elymnias esaca andersonii ; Wei et al.,2017 ; 91, fig.1, N♂ (Yala, Than To)
Elymnias esaca esaca ; Wei et al.,2017 ; 92, fig.2, C♂ (Yala, Than To)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Yala : 1♀ (photo by S.Atdhabhan).

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

Notes

The butterfly is rather localized and hitherto has been known only from Yala, P. Thailand. It is uncommon in montane forest at low elevations (Alt.450m).

Literature

Westwood, J.O.,1851 : In: Doubleday, E., The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus.
2(45): 399-410 , pl. 68 ([5].Jul.1851), London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

Distant, W.L.,1883 : Contributions to a Knowledge of Malayan Entomology. Part II.
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)12: 351-353.

Nicéville, L. de,1893 : On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region.
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 7(3): 322-357, pls.H,I,J.

Aoki, T., Yamaguchi, S. & Uémura, Y.,1982 : In: Tsukada, E. (Ed.), Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands vol.3.
Satyridae, Amathusiidae and Libytheidae.
Tokyo, Plapac co. Ltd. 530 pp, 113 col.pls. (in Japanese)

Wei, C.H., Lohman, D., Peggie, D. & Yen, S.H.,2017 : An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).
Zookeys 676: 47-152.

♀, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

2013.01.31 - 2025.02.28.