Halpe scissa scissa Cantile, 1961
Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un. Halpe scissa scissa ♀ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♀ Un.
♂, Surat Thani, Thailand. ♀, Surat Thani, Thailand.
Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un. Halpe scissa scissa ♀ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♀ Un.
♂, Surat Thani, Thailand. ♀, Surat Thani, Thailand.
Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un.
♂, Surat Thani, Thailand. ♂, Surat Thani, Thailand.
Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un.
♂, Chiang Mai, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand.
Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Up. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ Un. Halpe scissa scissa ♂ genitalia Halpe scissa scissa ♂ genitalia
♂, Oudomxai, Laos. (photo by H.Onodera) ♂ genitalia, Surat Thani, Thailand.

ON : Halpe scissa Cantlie, 1961
OD : J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 58(2): 532-533.
TL : "East Dawnas, Burma" [Dawna Range, Myanmar]. (NHML)
Distribution : Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, W.Malaysia. 		Halpe scissa scissa map
Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Halpe clara ; Kimura,1997 ; 39, pl.1, figs.7,♂,8,♂(Un),9,♀,10,♀(Un). (Kao Poh Ta Hill)
Halpe clara ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 778, pl.357, figs.H129,♂,♂(Un). (Ranong)
Halpe clara ; Ek-Amnuay et al.,2007 : 5, figs.H129,♂,♂(Un). (Kao Poh Ta hill)
Halpe clara ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 59, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Muang Shone; Kao Poh Ta)
Halpe clara ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 830, pl.383, figs.H126,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Doi Pha Hom Pok; Ranong)
Halpe scissa scissa ; Uehara & Maruyama,2016 : figs.24,♂,25,♂(Un). (Nan)

[ LAOS ]
Halpe clara ; Onodera,2015 : 41, figs.9,♂.9v♂(Un). (Oudomxai)
Halpe scissa scissa ; Onodera,2022 : 113, pl.249, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Oudomxai)

[ VIETNAM ]
Halpe clara ; Devyatkin,2012 : 153. (C: Quang Binh ; Thua Thien Hue)
Halpe clara ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 78. (C: Quang Binh; Thua Thien Hue to Lam Dong)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Chiang Mai : 1♂ (genitalia dissected).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Nan : 6♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Tak : 1♂ (genitalia dissected).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Surat Thani : 21♂ 5♀. (3♂ genitalia dissected).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


[ LAOS ]
Oudomxai : 2♂ (photo by H.Onodera).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Notes

The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 1000 - 1300m). Males occasionally come to the banks of streams and puddles to suck water.
Uehara & Maruyama (2016) treated Halpe fushigina as a subspecies of Halpe scissa. However, in comparison to fushigina : small in size, the white spots in spaces 2 and 3 on the UpF are conspicuously smaller, and their distributions overlap in Thailand and Malaysia. Thus, we consider them to be separate species.

♂ androconial brand on the UpF.
Halpe arcuata ♂ UpF Halpe lao ♂ UpF Halpe fushigina ♂ UpF Halpe scissa scissa ♂ UpF Halpe scissa scissa ♂ UpF
arcuata lao fushigina scissa scissa (Chiang Mai) scissa scissa (Ranong)

Literature

Cantile, S.K.,1961 : Hesperiidae. Halpe scissa sp.nov.
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 58(2): 532-533.

Uehara, J. & Maruyama, K.,2016 :
The revision of Halpe arcuata group and description of two new species of Halpe Moore, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Indochina.
Butterflies 73: 19-24.

2017.08.31 - 2025.01.31.
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