Tajuria yajna istroidea  Nicéville, 1887

Tajuria yajna istroidea ♂ Up. Tajuria yajna istroidea ♂ Un. Tajuria yajna istroidea ♀ Up. Tajuria yajna istroidea ♀ Un.
♂, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito) ♀, Lao Cai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)
Tajuria yajna istroidea ♀ Up. Tajuria yajna istroidea ♀ Un.
♀, Lao Cai, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Tajuria istroidea Nicéville, 1887
OD : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887(3):458-459, pl.40, fig.3,♀.
TL : Sikkim.
Distribution : Sikkim, Assam, Laos, N.Vietnam, S.Yunnan.
● ssp.ellisi
ssp.istroidea
ssp.selangorana
Tajuria yajna istroidea map

Records taken from Literature

[ LAOS ]
Tajuria yajna ssp. ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 55, pl.22, figs.Ly-227a♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Xaisomboune; Phou Pan)

[ VIETNAM ]
Tajuria yajna istroidea ; Saito & Inayoshi,2022b : 31, figs.39,♂,39v♂(Un),40,♀,40v♀(Un),41,♀,41v♀(Un). (Lao Cai; Vinh Phuc)


Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Lao Cai : Sapa, 2005.06.--. 1♀ LC (KS).
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Vinh Phuc : 2015.05.--. 1♂ LC (KS) ; 2005.04.--. 1♀ LC (KS).
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Notes

New to Vietnam. Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 recorded yajna ssp. from Laos. I provisionally regard these as this taxon.


Literature

Nicéville, L.de,1887 : Descriptions of some new or little-known Butterflies from India, with some Notes on the seasonal Dimorphism obtaining in the Genus Melanitis
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887(3):448-467, pls.39-40.

Huang, H. & Xue, Y.P.,2005 : A Contribution to the Butterfly Fauna of Southern Yunnan (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)
Neue Ent. Nachr. 57:135-154.

Huang, H.,2022 : Taxonomy and morphology of Chinese butterflies 2
Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Iolaini: Genera Tajuria Moore, 1881, Pratapa Moore, 1881, Dacalana Moore, 1884, Maneca de Nicéville,1890, Creon de Nicéville, 1896 and Bullis de Nicéville, 1897 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Atalanta 53(1/2):136-199.


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