♂, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam.		♀, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)
♂, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)		♂, Ninh Binh, Vietnam. (photo by A.M.Cotton)

ON : Leptocircus walkeri Moore, 1902 OD : Lep. Ind. 5: 137. TL : Hong Kong. (NHML) Distribution : S.Yunnan, N.Vietnam, Hainan, Hong Kong, S.China. ● ssp.curius ● ssp.walkeri

Leptocircus curius magistralis Fruhstorfer, 1909 : Soc. ent. 24(9): 68. TL. "Yunnan, Möngtze" [Mengzi, S.Yunnan]. (NHML)

walkeri ;
♀, Type (red), #149657, Mar.92. Hong Kong, J.J.Walker (NHML, examined)
2♀, Cotype (yellow), Mar.92. Hong Kong, J.J.Walker (NHML, examined)
magistralis ; Syntype ♀, Type (red), #149655, Mengtzee, Yunnan. (NHML, examined)

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Leptocircus curius walkeri ; Jordan,1909 : 108. (Tonkin)
Papilio curius f. walkeri ; Dubois & Vitalis,1914 : 151. (Tonkin)
Papilio curius f. walkeri ; Dubois & Vitalis,1921 : 16. (Tonkin)
Leptocircus curius walkeri ; Metaye,1957 : 84. (N)
Lamproptera curius curius ; Ikeda et al.,1998 : 17, figs.5:15,♂,16,♂,17,♂(Un),18,♀,10:23(♂genitalia). (Cuc Phuong)
Lamproptera curius walkeri ; Shinkai,1999 : 63-64. (N: Tam Dao)
Lamproptera curius walkeri ; Luong et al.,2004 : 2, 29, figs.♀[♂],♀[♂](Un). (Cuc Phuong)
Lamproptera megtes virescens ; Luong et al.,2004 : 2, 29, figs.♀,♀(Un). (Cuc Phuong)
Lamproptera curius walkeri ; Monastyrskii,2007 : 98-99, pl.31, fig.3(Type,♀,HongKong). (throughout Vietnam)
Lamproptera curius walkeri ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 15. (N) (partim)

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The butterfly is locally common in forests at low to moderate elevations. Males are frequently observed mud-puddling along stream banks and at puddles.

Moore, F.,1902 : Lepidoptera Indica. vol.5.
5: 97-225 (1902), London, Lovell Reeve & Co.

Fruhstorfer, H.,1909 : Neue Leptocircus - Rassen.
Soc. ent. 24(9): 68. (1.Aug.1909)

Jordan, K.,1909 : Die Indo-Australische Tagfalter. Papilionidae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde.
9: 105-112, Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen.

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