Halpe ormenes vilasina

Halpe ormenes vilasina Fruhstorfer, 1911


♂, Yala, Thailand.		♀, 2017.03.23. Yala, Thailand. (photo by E.Ikari)

♂, 2017.01.12. Yala, Thailand.		♂ genitalia, Yala, Thailand.

ON : Halpe zema vilasina Fruhstorfer, 1911
OD : Deut. ent. Zeit. [Iris] 25(4): 45.
TL : Westsumatra. (NHML)

Distribution : Myanmar, P.Thailand (Yala), W.Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra.

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
'Halpe ormenes vilasina ; Pinratana,1985 : 54, pl.18, fig.99,♂. (Chiang Mai; Nakhon Nayok)'
'Halpe ormenes vilasina ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 56. (by literature)'
Halpe ormenes vilasina ; Saito & Inayoshi,2018 : 40, figs.129,♂,♂(Un),130,♀,♀(Un). (Yala)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Yala (Betong Dist.) : 2♂ 1♀. (2♂ genitalia, dissected).
1♂, 2017.01.12. Y.Inayoshi (YI) ; 1♀, 2017.03.23. E.Ikari (YI)

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Notes

This is the first reliable record from Thailand.
The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 600 - 700m). Males are territorial on trees at hilltops.
Pinratana (1985) listed a record of the species in Nakhon Nayok and Chiang Mai. However, I consider these records are most likely to be Halpe zola. Furthermore, the record of Halpe zema ormenes in Mae Hoi by Shirôzu & Saigusa (1962) is certainly that of Halpe zema zema by the figure of male genitalia.

Literature

Fruhstorfer, H.,1911 : Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen.
Deut. ent. Zeit. [Iris] 25(4): 41-56. (1.Apr.1911)

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.

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