Parasarpa zulema  (Doubleday, [1848])

Parasarpa zulema ♂ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Un. Parasarpa zulema ♀ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♀ Un.
♂, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. ♀, Tak, Thailand.
Parasarpa zulema ♂ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Un. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Un.
♂, Tak, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand.
Parasarpa zulema ♂ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Un. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Up. Parasarpa zulema ♂ Un.
♂, Tak, Thailand. ♂, 1990.04.--. Xaignabouri, Laos.

ON : Limenitis zulema Doubleday, [1848]
OD : Gen. diurn. Lep. (2):276, pl.34, fig.1.
TL : India.
Distribution : Bhutan, Sikkim, Assam, Myanmar,
Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.
Parasarpa zulema map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Sumalia zulema ; Miyata & Hanafusa,1994 : 1, pl.4, fig.6,♂. (Mae Hong Son)
Sumalia zulema ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 412, pl.180, figs.N118,♂,♂(Un),♀. (Mae Sariang; Umphang)
Sumalia zulema ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 422, pl.184, figs.N284,♂,♂(Un),♀. (Mae Sariang; Umphang)
Sumalia zulema ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 92, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Umphang)

[ LAOS ]
Sumalia zulema ; Saito & Inayoshi,2018 : 31, figs.35,♂,♂(Un). (Xaignabouri)

[ VIETNAM ]
Limenitis zulema f.zulema ; Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 41. (Tonkin: Chapa)
Limenitis zulema ; Metaye,1957 : 97. (N)
Sumalia zulema ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 36. (N: Lao Cai / C: Ha Tinh)
Sumalia zulema ; Monastyrskii,2019 : 4(2):39-40, pl.39, figs.2a♂,2b♂(Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Van Ban / C: Vu Quang)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : 3♂ 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Tak : 7♂ (incl. photo).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Nan : 3♂ (incl. photo by A.Giudici).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


[ LAOS ]
Xaignabouri : 1990.04.--. 1♂. P.Sukkit (YI).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

This is the first record from Laos.
The butterfly is locally not rare in montane forests at moderate elevations (Alt. 900 - 1300m).


Literature

Doubleday, E. & Hewitson, W.C.,1846-1852 : The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera,
comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus ;
illustrated with 86 plates by W.C.Hewitson.
Longon, Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. xii + ii + 534 pp, 86 pls, In 54 parts. In 2 vols.

Miyata, T. & Hanafusa, H.,1994 : Newly recorded butterflies from North Thailand (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Futao 17:1-2, pl.4.

Wu, L.W., Chiba, H., Lees, D.C., Ohsima, Y. & Jeng, M.L.,2019 : Unravelling relationships among the shared stripes of sailors:
Mitogenomic phylogeny of Limenitidini butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae,Limenitidinae), focusing on the genera Athyma and Limenitis
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 130(2019):60-66.


Parasarpa zulema ♂ Parasarpa zulema ♂
♂, Tak, Thailand. ♂, Nan, Thailand. (photo by A.Giudici)

2007.03.10 - 2022.11.30.

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