Cigaritis elwesi

Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, 1925)


♀, 2019.11.19. Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

ON : Spindasis elwesi Evans, 1925
OD : J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30(4): 759.
TL : 'Kumaon to Assam'.

Distribution : Sikkim, N.Thailand.

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Spindasis elwesi: Saito & Inayoshi,2022b : 28–29, figs.29,♀,29v♀(Un). (Mae Hong Son: Mae Hong Son Dist.)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Mae Hong Son : Mae Hong Son Dist., 2019.11.19. 1♀ Y.Inayoshi & A.Giudici (YI).

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Notes

This is the first record from Thailand. Hitherto the species has been known only a few specimens from Sikkim in the Natural History Museum London (NHML).
The butterfly was found in forests at moderate elevations. Further distributional study is needed.

Literature

Evans, W.H, 1925. The identification of Indian Butterflies. Part VIII.
Journal of the Bombay natural History Society, 30(4): 756–776, pl. 29.

Roy, P, 2016. Records of Cigaritis zhengweilie Huang,1998 (Lepidoptera: Theclinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India and Southeastern Tibet, China, And A note on Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, 1925).
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 8(13): 9568–9573.

Zhang, J, Cong, Q, Shen, J, Song, L. & Grishin, N.V, 2023. Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics.
The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 11(3): 1–93.


♀, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

2020.01.31 - 2024.08.31.