Darpa dealbata (Distant, 1886)

Darpa dealbata ♂ Up. Darpa dealbata ♂ Un. Darpa dealbata ♀ Up. Darpa dealbata ♀ Un.
♂, Ranong, Thailand. ♀, Yala, Thailand.
Darpa dealbata ♂ Up. Darpa dealbata ♂ Un. Darpa dealbata ♀ Up. Darpa dealbata ♀ Un.
♂, Ranong, Thailand. ♀, Ranong, Thailand.

ON : Tagiades dealbata Distant, 1886
OD : Rhop. malayana: 388-389, pl.35, fig.21.
TL : 'Malay Peninsula, Sungei Ujong; Malacca'.
Distribution : Assam, Myanmar, Yunnan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, W.Malaysia, Tioman, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Palawan.
Darpa dealbata map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Darpa pteria ; Godfrey,1930 : 365. (Chiang Rai: Doi Chang; Me Wong)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Pinratana,1985 : 32, pl.12, fig.49,♂. (Trang)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 756, pl.346, figs.H61,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Trang)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 38, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Kam Puan; Ka Chong; Than To WF.)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 806, pl.371, figs.H59,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Trang)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Küppers & Janikorn,2017 : 74, fig.Abb.H-063. (Phang Nga)
Darpa dealbata ; Sophonviwatkul et al.,2024– : Butterflies of Thailand, figs., Early Stages. (Phetchabun; Yala) (accessed: 2024.06.30)

[ LAOS ]
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Masui & Uehara,1996 : 5, pl.2,fig.14,♂,♂(Un). (Phonsi)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Osada et al.,1999 : 222, pl.135, fig.♂. (Phong Si)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 57.

[ VIETNAM ]
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 159. (C: Vu Quang)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 73. (N / C)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Phetchabun : 2♂ (photo by A.Giudici & S.Sophonviwatkul).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Ranong : 6♂ 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Trang : 2♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Yala : 2♂ 3♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is locally not uncommon in forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 30 - 900m). They often rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread like Tagiades. Males are frequently observed mud-puddling along stream banks and at puddles.
Zhang et al.,2022 treated this taxon as a distinct species on the basis of molecular analysis and morphology.


Literature

Distant, W.L.,1882-1886 : Rhopalocera Malayana : a Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula.
London, Author, Penang, Logan: xvi + 482 + [4] pp, 46 pls.

Huang, A.F., Chiba, H. & Fan, X.L.,2019 : The Third Species of Darpa Moore, 1865 in China and Some Notes on the Genus (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Tagiadini).
Entomol. news 128(3): 284-292.

Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J. & Grishin, N.V.,2022 : Taxonoic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera).
Insecta Mundi 0921: 1-135.


1999.07.31 - 2026.05.31.

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