Aurivittia vietnamicus  (Devyatkin, 1998)

Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Un. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Un.
♂, 1991.06.19. Nan, Thailand. ♀, 1992.09.09. Nan, Thailand.
Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Un. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Un.
♂, 1992.03.13. Nan, Thailand. ♀, Bolikhamxai, Laos.
Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ Un. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Up. Aurivittia vietnamicus ♀ Un.
♂, 1992.09.13. Nan, Thailand. ♀, Phetchabun, Thailand.
Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ genitalia Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ genitalia Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ genitalia Aurivittia vietnamicus ♂ genitalia
♂ genitalia, Nan, Thailand.

ON : Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus Devyatkin, 1998
OD : Neue Ent. Nachr. 41:289-292, figs.1,♂,2,♂(Un).
TL : Ba Vi, Ha Tay Province, N.Vietnam.
Distribution : Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.
Aurivittia vietnamicus map

Type Materials Information

Holotype ♂, 19.Aug.1993. Ba Vi, Ha Tay, N.Vietnam. A.Baranov
Paratypes : 1♂, Ba Vi, Ha Tay ; 1♂ 1♀, Tam Dao, Vinh Phu ; 3♂4♀, Ba Be, Bac Can ; 1♂, Pu Mat, Nghe An.


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2015- : Butterflies of Thailand, fig. (Phetchabun) (accessed: 2023.04.23)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Saito & Inayoshi,2018 : 39, figs.120,♂,♂(Un). (Nan; Phetchabun)

[ LAOS ]
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus aurivittatus ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 222, pl.134, figs.♂,♀. (Thabok) (in part)
'Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus aurivittatus ; Nimura & Wakahara,2005 : 48. (Namdua)'
Celaenorrhinus aurivittatus aurivittatus ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 57.
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Onodera,2022 : 104, pl.240, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Bolikamxai: Phon Si; Thabok)

[ VIETNAM ]
Celaenorrhinus aurivittata aurivittata ; Inoué & Kawazoé,1964 : 47, figs.19,♀,20,♀(Un). (Banmethuot)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 159. (N: Tam Dao; Ba Vi; Ba Be; Cuc Phuong / C: Pu Mat)
Celaenorrhinus aurivittata aurivittata ; Ikeda et al.,2001b : 63, figs.2:1,♂,2,♂(Un),5:11(♂genitalia). (Cuc Phuong)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,2003 : 122. (S: Bi Doup - Nui Ba)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Luong et al.,2004 : 13, 85, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Cuc Phuong)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Miyazaki, Saito & Saito,2007b : 6, fig.H-22,♂. (Lam Dong: Dai Duc Me)
Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 72. (N / C: to Lam Dong)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Nan (Song Kwae dist ; Pua dist.) : 7♂ 4♀ (incl. photo).
Pua dist; 1991.04.--. 1♂, LC (YI) ; 1991.06.19. 1♂, LC (YI)
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Phetchabun : 4♂ 1♀ (incl. photo).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


[ LAOS ]
Bolikhamxai : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

A new genus Aurivittia Grishin, 2019 was proposed for Plesioneura aurivittata, its close relative Plesioneura cameroni and Celaenorrhinus vietnamicus on the basis of molecular analysis and morphology.
The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 500 - 1300m). Both sexes visit flowers. They often fly out from bushes along the trail and rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread.
The above specimen from Nan is the first record in Thailand. In Thailand, both Aurivittia aurivittata and Aurivittia vietnamicus are sympatric in Nan province.


Literature

Devyatkin, A.L.,1998 : Hesperiidae of Vietnam 3.
A new species of Celaenorrhinus Hübner,1819 from Vietnam, with revisional notes on the C.aurivitttata (Moore,1879) group (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Neue Ent. Nachr. 44:289-294, col.pl.301.

Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J. & Grishin, N.V.,2019 : Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
Insecta Mundi 0731: 1-56.


Aurivittia vietnamicus Aurivittia vietnamicus
♂, Phetchabun, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand.
Aurivittia vietnamicus Aurivittia vietnamicus
Bolikhamxai, Laos. (photo by K.Phongpiyamit)

2012.08.31 - 2023.05.31.

A Check list of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM. Copyright © 1996- Y.Inayoshi.