Tagiades toba toba  Nicéville, 1896

Tagiades toba toba ♂ Up. Tagiades toba toba ♂ Un. Tagiades toba toba ♀ Up. Tagiades toba toba ♀ Un.
♂, Ranong, Thailand. ♀, Ranong, Thailand.

ON : Tagiades toba Nicéville, 1896
OD : J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 10(2):187-188, pl.T, fig.47,♂.
TL : Sumatra. (♂, NZC)
Distribution : P.Thailand (Ranong and Southward),
S.Myanmar, W.Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Tagiades toba toba map

Type Material Information

toba  ; Type ♂, 28.Mar.1894. Battaks, Sumatra. (NZC) ; Sheela et al.,2019 : 58, figs.♂,♂(Un).


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Tagiades toba ; Godfrey,1930 : 361. (by literature, Evans)
Tagiades toba ; Godfrey,1932a : 275. (P)
Tagiades toba toba ; Pinratana,1985 : 42, pl.16, fig.72,♂. (Trang)
Tagiades toba toba ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 766, pl.352, figs.H87,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Trang)
Tagiades toba toba ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 47, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Kam Puan; Muang Shone; Ka Chong)
Tagiades toba toba ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 816, pl.377, figs.H85,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Trang)
Tagiades toba toba ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2023- : Butterflies of Thailand, fig.♂. (Yala) (in part) (accessed: 2023.06.08)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Ranong : 3♂ 2♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Trang : 1♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Yala : 1♂ 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 30 - 550m). Both sexes visit flowers. They often fly out from bushes along the trail and rest on the underside of leaves with their wings spread.


Literature

Nicéville, L. de,1896 : On new and little-known Lepidoptera from the Indo-Malayan Region,
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 10(2):169-194, pls.R,S,T.


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