♂ (dsf), Nan, Thailand.		♀ (dsf), Nan, Thailand.
♂ (dsf), Chanthaburi, Thailand.		♀ (dsf), Nan, Thailand.
♂, Nan, Thailand.		♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.		♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

ON : Diadema persimilis Westwood, [1850] OD : in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2):281. TL : N.India. (NHML) Distribution : Nepal, Sikkim to Myanmar, Thailand. [Cambodia] ● ssp.persimilis ● ssp.

Hestina zella Butler, 1869 : Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 17(1):9-10, text-fig. TL. Oriente.
* Hestina aporina Rober, 1927 : Int. Ent. Zeit. 20:421, fig.2,♀. TL. Sikkim.

persimilis : Syntype ♂, Rh.8993. N.India. designated by P.Ackery,1996. (NHML)

[ THAILAND ]
Diagora persimilis persimilis ; Pinratana,1979 : 95, fig.N163,♂,♂(Un). (Chiang Mai)
Hestina persimilis persimilis ; Pinratana & Eliot,1996 : 92, pl.69, fig.176,♂. (Chiang Mai)
Hestina persimilis persimilis ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 474, pl.211, fig.N189,♂. ('Doi Pha Hom Pok')
Hestina persimilis persimilis ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 494, pl.220, figs.N373,♂,♂(Un). ('Doi Pha Hom Pok')
Hestina persimilis persimilis ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2015- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Chiang Mai) (accessed: 2023.04.27)
Hestina persimilis persimilis ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 129, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Chiang Dao)

[ CAMBODIA ]
Diagora persimilis f.persimilis ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 45. (Cambodge)

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : 7♂.

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Chiang Mai : 5♂.

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Nan : 11♂ 3♀.

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The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 400 - 1100m). Males often come to the banks of streams and puddles to suck water.
The records from Doi Pha Hom Pok in Ek-Amnuay,[2007],2012 are doubtful. Further distributional research is needed.

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.

Butler, A.G.,1869 : Description of a New Species of Hestina, which mimics a Danais.
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 17(1):9-10.

Masui, A. & Inomata, T.,1997 : Apaturinae of the World (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) 8
Yadoriga 170:7-23. (in Japanese)

♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.	♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2007.09.20 - 2023.04.30.