♂, Dong Nai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Charaxes sandakanus Fruhstorfer, 1895 OD : Ent. Nachr. 21(11): 197. TL : 'Sandakan, Nordborneo' [recte Assam]. (NHML) Distribution : N.India to Myanmar, Vietnam. ● ssp.sandakanus ● ssp.moori

Eulepis moori sandakanus f. marginalis Rothschiled, 1899; Novit. zool. 6: 242–243; Loc: "Naga Hills" [Nagaland]. (IFS)

sandakana :
Holotype ♂, 'Nord Borneo' [Assam : India] designated by R.L. Smiles,1975. (NHML)
f.marginalis :
Holotype ♂, Naga Hills. designated by R.L. Smiles,1975. (NHML)
Paratypes 2♂, Naga Hills. designated by R.L. Smiles,1975. (NHML)

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Eriboea moori f. sandakanus: Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 46. (Tonkin)
Eriboea moori f. marginalis: Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 46. (Tonkin)
Eriboea moori sandakanus f. hib. sandakanus: Metaye,1957 : 99. (N)
Eriboea moori sandakanus f. aest. marginalis: Metaye,1957 : 99. (N)
Polyura moori sandakanus: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 42. (N; S)
Polyura moori sandakanus: Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(1):88–89, pl.13, figs.3a♂,3b♂(Un). (S: Cat Tien)

[ VIETNAM ]
Dong Nai : 1♂.

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The butterfly is uncommon in forests at low elevations.
It is likely to be distributed in other parts of Indochina. It may be overlooked because it is thought to be similar species that of athamas or arja etc. Further distributional research is needed.

Fruhstorfer, H, 1895. Neue Rhopaloceren aus dem malayischen Archipel. III.
Entomologische Nachrichten, 21(11): 168–171, 196–197. ([1].Jun.1895)

Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K, 1899. A monograph of Charaxes and the allied Prionopterous genera. Part 2.
Novitates zoologicae, 6: 220–286, pl. 7.

Smiles, R.L, 1982. The taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura Billberg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology), 44(3): 115–237.

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