♂, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Capila pauripunetata Chou & Gu, 1994 OD : In: Chou, Monograph. Rhop. Sin. : 699, 771-772, fig.75,(right,♂). TL : Hainan. Distribution : N.Myanmar (Kachin), Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, Guangdong.

Capila pauripunetata tamdaoensis Devyatkin, 1996 : Atalanta 27(3/4): 595-596, col.pl.10, figs.1(HT,♂), 2(PT,♀). TL. Tamdao, Vinh Phu, N.Vietnam. (MSU)

pauripunetata  ; Holotype ♂, Hainan. Gu Maobin. (Entomological Museum, Shaanxi)
tamdaoensis  ;
Holotype ♂, 3-4.May.1991. Tamdao, Vinh Phu, North Vietnam. A.Monastyrsky (MSU)
Paratypes : 2♂ 6♀, same location of holotype.

[ LAOS ]
Capila pauripunetata ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 221, pl.133, fig.♂. (Oudomxay)
Capila pauripunetata ssp. ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 57.

[ VIETNAM ]
Capila pauripunetata tamdaoensis ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 157. (N: Tam Dao)
Capila pauripunetata ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,2002 : 140-141. (C: Ngoc Linh)
Capila pauripunetata tamdaoensis ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 71. (N / C: Khanh Hoa, Hon Ba)

[ VIETNAM ]
Vinh Phuc : 1♂.

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The butterfly is very localized and uncommon in montane forests. Further distributional research is needed.

Chou, I. (Ed.),1994 : Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium.
2 vols., 854 pp. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House.

Devyatkin, A.L.,1996 : New Hesperiidae from North Vietnam, with the description of a new genus (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera).
Atalanta 27(3/4): 695-604, 684-685 (pl.10).

Wang. Z., Inayoshi, Y., Saito, K., Liu, Z.F. & Xue, G.X.,2026 :
Intraspecific morphological variability of Capila pauripunetata Chou & Gu, 1994 (= C. pauripunetata tamdaoensis Devyatkin, 1996 syn. nov.) (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae).
Zootaxa 5782(1): 126–132.

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