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 : Sungei Ujong, Malay Pen.
Distribution : Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos,
Vietnam, Yunnan, 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 ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2024- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Phetchabun; Yala) (accessed: 2024.06.30)

[ LAOS ]
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Masui & Uehara,1996 : 5, pl.2,fig.14,♂,♂(Un). (Phonsi)
Darpa pteria dealbata ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,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 rare in montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 30 - 900m). They often rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread like Tagiades. Males frequently come to the banks of streams and puddles to suck water.
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 - 2024.06.30.

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