Dilipa morgiana  (Westwood, [1850])

Dilipa morgiana ♂ Up. Dilipa morgiana ♂ Un. Dilipa morgiana ♀ Up. Dilipa morgiana ♀ Un.
♂, Lao Cai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito) ♀, Hagiang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Apatura morgiana Westwood, [1850]
OD : in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2):305.
TL : 'S.India' [N.India]. (NHML)
Distribution : N.W.Himalayas, Nepal to Myanmar,
Laos, N.Vietnam, S.E.Tibet, Yunnan.
Dilipa morgiana map

Type Material Information

Syntype ♀, Rh.9068. N.India. (NHML)


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Dilipa morgiana ; Miyata & Hanafusa,1994 : 1, pl.4, fig.7,♂. (Chiang Mai: Doi Suthep)
'Dilipa morgiana ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 466, pl.207, figs.N174,♂(Myanmar),♂(Un,Myanmar). ('Doi Pha Hom Pok' [loc.err.])'
'Dilipa morgiana ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 486, pl.216, figs.N358,♂(Myanmar),♂(Un,Myanmar). ('Doi Pha Hom Pok' [loc.err.])'
Dilipa morgiana ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 123. (by literature)

[ LAOS ]
Dilipa morgiana f.morgiana ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 45. (Muong-Sen, Piahat)
Dilipa morgiana ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 208, pl.73, fig.♂. (Nong Het)
Dilipa morgiana ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 47.

[ VIETNAM ]
Dilipa morgiana ; Fruhstorfer,1913 : 701. (Tonkin: Black River)
Dilipa morgiana f.morgiana ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 45. (Annam)
Dilipa morgiana ; Metaye,1957 : 98. (N / C)
Dilipa morgiana ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 44. (N)
Dilipa morgiana ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):66, pl.6, figs.3a♂,3b♂(Un),3c♀,3d♀(Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Ha Giang: Dong Van)


Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Lao Cai : 1♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Hagiang : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The figured specimen in Ek-Amnuay,[2007],2012 is from N.E.Putao, Kachin State, Myanmar and the locality of 'Doi Pha Hom Pok' is incorrect. The record in Thailand has been known only one male at Phu Phing palace, Doi Suthep from insect dealer by Miyata & Hanafusa,1994 until now. I suspect it may be an erroneous data.


Literature

Westwood, J.O.,1850-1852 : In Doubleday et al., The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera.
vol.2 : ii + pp.251-534, pls.31-80,54. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

Miyata, T. & Hanafusa, H.,1994 : Newly recorded butterflies from North Thailand (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Futao 17:1-2, pl.4.


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A Check list of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM. Copyright © Y.Inayoshi.