Capila jayadeva jayadeva

Capila jayadeva jayadeva Moore, 1866


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

♂, Lam Dong, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, (var.?) Lam Dong, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Capila jayadeva Moore, 1866
OD : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865(3): 785, pl.42, fig.3,♂; fig.4,♀[as zennara ♂].
TL : "Darjeeling" [Darjeeling, W.Bengal, India]. (NHML)

Distribution : Sikkim, Assam, N.Myanmar, S.Laos, Vietnam.

	● ssp.jayadeva
	● ssp.translucida
	● ssp.khambounei
	● ssp.mackwoodi
	● ssp.barroni
	● ssp.arooni

Synonym

Ismene jayadeva Moore, [1858] : In: Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. East-India Co. 1: 248. TL. Darjeeling. (nom. nud.)

Type Material Information

♂, Type (red), Darjiling. (NHML, examined)

Records taken from Literature

[ LAOS ]
Capila jayadeva jayadeva ; Xue et al.,2026 : 92. (Sekong)

[ VIETNAM ]
Capila jayadeva ssp. ; Miyazaki, Saito & Saito,2007b : 3, fig.H-15,♂,♀,♀(var.). (Lam Dong: Dambri; Dai Duc Me)
Capila jayadeva ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 71. (C)
Capila jayadeva jayadeva ; Xue et al.,2026 : 92, figs. 2:A,♂,♂(Un),B,♀,♀(Un),4:A-K(♂genitalia),8:A-C(♀genitalia),9(Map). (Lam Dong; Khanh Hoa; Gia Lai)

Specimens Examined

[ LAOS ]
Sekong : Dak Cheung. 1♂, 2012.05.10. LC. (KS)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

[ VIETNAM ]
Lam Dong : 6♂ 2♀.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Notes

Literature

Moore, F.,[1858] : In: Horsfield & Moore, A catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. Vol.1.
London, W.H. Allen and Co. v + 278 pp., 12 pls.

Moore, F.,1866 : On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal.
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865(3): 755-822, 3 pls.

Nicéville, L. de,1893 : On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region.
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 7(3): 322-357, pl.H-J.

Evans, W.H.,1949 : A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History).
i-xix + 1-502, pls.1-35. London.

Xue, G.X., Inayoshi, Y., Saito, K., Li, M. & Rao, Z.,2026 :
Capila jayadeva Moore, 1866 is a sexually dimorphic and male polymorphic species including six subspecies (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae).
Zootaxa 5748(1): 089–100.

1999.07.31 - 2026.01.31.