Spindasis vixinga davidsoni  Talbot, 1936

Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Up. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Un. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♀ Up. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♀ Un.
♂, Sa Kaeo, Thailand. ♀, Sa Kaeo, Thailand.
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Up. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Un. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♀ Up. Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♀ Un.
♂, Sa Kaeo, Thailand. ♀, Lampang, Thailand.
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ genitalia Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ genitalia Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ genitalia Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ genitalia
♂ genitalia, Sa Kaeo, Thailand.

ON : Spindasis vixinga davidsoni Talbot, 1936
OD : Entomologist 69:59-60.
TL : North Siam.
Distribution : Thailand, Laos, Vietnam.
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni map

Type Material Information

Holotype ♀, 10.Mar.1933. Prayao[Phayao], N.Siam. D.M.Davidson.


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Davidson & Macbeth,1938 : 80-81. (Prayao [Phayao])
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Pinratana,1981 : 113, pl.30, fig.12,♂(Un). (Prae)
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Yamaguchi & Aoki,2000 : 259, fig.153,♂. (Mukdahan: Phu Huay Sing)
'Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 596, pl.270, fig.L178,♀(Un, Laos).'
'Cigaritis vixinga davidsoni ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 624, pl.283, fig.L203,♀(Un, Laos).'
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 149, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Sai Yok Noi)
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2015- : Butterflies of Thailand, figs. (Mukdahan; Sa Kaeo) (accessed: 2023.05.31)

[ LAOS ]
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 218, pl.122, fig.♀(Un). (Saravan)
Cigaritis vixinga davidsoni ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2008b : 56, figs.15,♀,16♂,♂(Un). (Attapeu)
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 53, pl.16, fig.Ly-115,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (45km east of Attapeu)

[ VIETNAM ]
Cigaritis vixinga davidsoni ; Bui,2013 : 53, figs.♀,♀(Un). (C: Ninh Thuan: Nui Chua)
Cigaritis vixinga davidsoni ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 56. (S: Ba Ria Vung Tau)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Lampang : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Sa Kaeo : 2♂ 2♀ (incl. photo & photo by S.Sophonviwatkul).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Phetchaburi : 3♂ (photo by M.Hayashi & T.Aoyama).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is very localized and found in montane semi-dried forests at low elevations, however is not rare in the habitats. Both sexes visit flowers.


Literature

Talbot, G.,1936 : Notes upon some butterflies from Siam, with descriptions of new races and forms (Lep. Rhopalocera).
Entomologist 69:56-60.

Balint, Zs., Heath, A., Katona, G., Kertesz, K. & Safian, Sz.,2017 : Male secondary sexual characters in Aphnaeinae wings (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Opusc. Zool. Budapest 48(1):27-34.

Bui, H.M.,2013 : A certain record of Cigaritis vixinga davidsoni Talbot, 1936 in Vietnam
Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 64:53.


Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♀
♂, Sa Kaeo, Thailand. (photo by S.Sophonviwatkul) ♀, Sa Kaeo, Thailand. (photo by S.Sophonviwatkul)
Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂ Spindasis vixinga davidsoni ♂
♂, Sa Kaeo, Thailand. ♂, Phetchaburi, Thailand. (photo by M.Hayashi)

1999.07.18 - 2023.07.31.

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