♂, Ha Giang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Da Nang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)
♂, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Da Nang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Rohana parisatis tonkiniana Fruhstorfer, 1906 OD : Wien. ent. Ztg. 25(10): 343–344. TL : "Than Moi, Tonkin" [Than Moi, Lang Son, N.Vietnam]. (MNHN) Distribution : Vietnam. ● ssp.siamensis ● ssp.tonkiniana

Holotype ♂, Than Moi, Tonkin. (MNHN) : Paratype 1♀, Than Moi, Tonkin.

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Apatura parisatis tonkiniana: Fruhstorfer,1913 : 698. (Tonkin: Than Moi)
Apatura tonkiniana: Vitalis,1919 : 232. (Tonkin)
Apatura parisatis f. tonkiniana: Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 44. (Tonkin)
Apatura parisatis tonkiniana: Metaye,1957 : 98. (N)
Apatura parisatis tonkiniana: Metaye,1958b : 176. (Foret de Dinh Quan)
Rohana tonkiniana tonkiniana: Ikeda et al.,2000 : 37, figs.7:15,♂,16,♂(Un), fig.9:43(♂,genitalia). (Cuc Phuong)
Rohana tonkiniana tonkiniana: Luong et al.,2004 : 7, 69, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Cuc Phuong)
Rohana tonkiniana tonkiniana: Miyazaki et al.,2007c : 38, fig.N-119,♀. (Lam Dong: Dambri)
Rohana tonkiniana tonkiniana: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 43. (N; C; S)
Rohana tonkiniana tonkiniana: Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):53–54, pl.3, figs.5a♂,5b♂(Un),5c♀,5d♀(Un). (N: Na Hang; Ba Be; Tam Dao; Cuc Phuong; Cat Ba)
Rohana tonkiniana: Masui,2025 : 242. (Vietnam)

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Masui (2025) treated siamensis as a synonym of the nominotypical subspecies. However, the taxon siamensis appears to be smaller than tonkiniana, as originally described. Therefore, I provisionally treat it with the conventional classification. Further taxonomic study is needed.

Fruhstorfer, H, 1906. Verzeichnis der von Mir in Tonkin, Annam und Siam gesammelten Nymphaliden und Besprechung verwandter Formen.
Wiener entomologischen Zeitung, 25(10): 307–362, 2 pls. (30.Oct.1906)

Fruhstorfer, H, 1913. 6. Familie: Nymphalidae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde.
Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 9: 697–704. (5.Aug.1913)

Nguýen-Phung, T, 1985. Systématique évolutive et biogéographie du genre Rohana Moore (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae).
Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N.S.), 2(2): 175–191.

Masui, A., 2025 : Emperor Butterflies of the World. An illustrated Monograph of the Subfamily Apaturinae.
Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo, i–xi + 358 pp., (172 pls.).

2007.09.20 - 2025.12.31.