Tacola larymna selessana (Fruhstorfer, 1906)

Tacola larymna selessana ♂ Up. Tacola larymna selessana ♂ Un. Tacola larymna selessana ♀ Up. Tacola larymna selessana ♀ Un.
♂, Yala, Thailand. ♀, Satun, Thailand.
Tacola larymna selessana ♂ Up. Tacola larymna selessana ♂ Un. Tacola larymna selessana ♀ Up. Tacola larymna selessana ♀ Un.
♂, Satun, Thailand. ♀, Ranong, Thailand.

ON : Athyma larymna selessana Fruhstorfer, 1906
OD : Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 56(6/7): 393–394.
TL : "Padangsche Bovenlanden" [Padang, Sumatra].
Distribution : P.Thailand (south of Ranong), W.Malaysia, Sumatra.
● ssp.siamensis
● ssp.selessana
Athyma larymna selessana Map

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Athyma larymna siamensis: Pinratana & Eliot,1996 : 59. (Ranong; Yala)
Athyma larymna siamensis: Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 404. (Krabi)
Athyma larymna siamensis: Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 414. (Krabi)
Tacola larymna selessana: Kimura et al.,2016 : 91, figs.♂,♂(Un),♂,♂(Un). (Khlong Naka; Than To WF.)
Athyma larymna siamensis: Küppers & Janikorn,2020 : 56–57, figs.Abb.N-313–316,466. (Phang Nga)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Ranong : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Satun : 1♂ 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

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


Notes

The butterfly is uncommon in lowland forests (10–200 m a.s.l.). Males are occasionally observed mud-puddling along stream banks and at puddles.


Literature

Fruhstorfer, H, 1906. Historisches und Morphologisches über das Genus Athyma und dessen Verwandte.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 56(6/7): 384–434. (19.Oct.1906)

Tsukada, E, 1991. In: Tsukada, E. (Ed.), Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands 5. Nymphalidae (II).
Azumino Butterflie's Research Institute, Nagano, 576 pp., (238 pls.). (in Japanese)

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.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 130(2019): 60–66.


Tacola larymna selessana ♂
♂, Yala, Thailand. (photo by A.Giudici)

2014.08.02 - 2024.08.31.

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