Drupadia scaeva cooperi

Drupadia scaeva cooperi (Tytler, 1940)


♂, Chanthaburi, Thailand.

ON : Biduanda melisa cooperi Tytler, 1940
OD : J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 42(1):123.
TL : Anisakan, Maymyo, [Myanmar]. (NHML)

Distribution : Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan.

	● ssp.melisa
	● ssp.cooperi
	● ssp.scaeva

Type Materials Information

Holotype ♂, 14.Sep.1926. Anisakan, Maymyo, Burma. G.Cooper (NHML)
Paratype 1♂, 21.Apr.1914. Nong Khai Ploy [near Sriracha, S.E.Thailand]. E.J.Godfrey (NHML)

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Biduanda melisa ; Godfrey,1916 : 141. (Nong Khai Ploi)
'Biduanda cyara ; Riley & Godfrey,1921 : 187. (Prae: Me Song forest)'
'Biduanda cyara ; Godfrey,1930 : 344. (Prae: Me Song forest)'
Biduanda melisa ; Godfrey,1930 : 344. (Chonburi: Sriracha)
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Cowan,1974 : 343. ('Prae: Me Song'; Chanthaburi: Khao Sabap)
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Pinratana,1981 : 124, not fig. (Chonburi; 'Prae')
Drupadia scaeva ssp. ; Pinratana,1981 : 124, pl.34, figs.9,♂,10,♀ ; pl.35, figs.5,♀(Un),6,♂(Un). (Chanthaburi)
'Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 676, pl.309, figs.L330a♀(Laos),♀(Un,Laos) [photo from Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999].'
Drupadia scaeva melisa ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 676, pl.309, figs.L330b♂,♂(Un). (in part)
'Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 714, pl.327, figs.L354a♀(Laos),♀(Un,Laos) [photo from Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999].'
Drupadia scaeva melisa ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 714, pl.327, figs.L354b♂,♂(Un). (in part)
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 108. (by literature)
Drupadia scaeva melisa ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 108, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Wan Nam Khiewo; Khao Soi Dao)

[ LAOS ]
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 218, pl.124, figs.♀,♀(Un). (Lak Sao)
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 55.
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Miyamoto & Nakamura,2016 : 25, fig.16,A,♂,B,♂(Un) (Attapeu)

[ VIETNAM ]
Drupadia scaeva ; Monastyrskii et al.,2006 : 44. (Thua Thien Hue: Nam Dong)
Drupadia scaeva ssp. ; Miyazaki, Saito & Saito,2006d : 64, figs.L-114,♂,♀. (Lam Dong: Dambri)
Drupadia scaeva cooperi ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 65. (C: Thua Hien Hue; Lam Dong / S: Dong Nai)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Nakhon Nayok : 1♂ (photo by M.Hayashi).

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Chanthaburi : 1♂.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Notes

The butterfly is uncommon in montane forests at low elevations.
There is a tendency for the female red patch on the UpF to become smaller from north to south. Specimens from S.E. Thailand in particular have a very small red patch, but this is variable even in the same locality.
Cowan (1974) recorded this taxon from Phrae, northern Thailand, but this was based on a specimen by Godfrey (1916). There are a number of questionable species in Godfrey's record from Phrae, and it has been suggested that specimens from other areas, such as Vietnam, may have been mixed in. No other records are known from N. Thailand apart from this one. Further research is needed to determine whether it is actually distributed in N. Thailand.

Literature

Tytler, H.,1940 : Notes on Some New and Interesting Butterflies chiefly from Burma. Part.2.
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 42:109-123.

Cowan, C.F.,1974 : The Indo-Oriental Genus Drupadia Moore (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae).
Bull. Brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 29:283-656, 6 pls.

♂ (territorial behavior), Nakhon Nayok, Thailand. (photo by M.Hayashi)

1999.07.18 - 2024.11.30.