Pareronia valeria lutescens

Pareronia valeria lutescens (Butler, 1879)


♂, Ranong, Thailand.		♀, Ranong, Thailand.

♂, Ranong, Thailand.		♀, Ranong, Thailand.

ON : Nepheronia lutescens Butler, 1879
OD : Cistula Entomologica 2:431.
TL : Borneo.

Distribution : S.Myanmar, P.Thailand (Ranong and Southward),
Langkawi, W.Malaysia, Tioman, Aur, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra.

Synonyms

Papilio philomela Fabricius, 1793 : Ent. syst. 3(1):57-58. TL. 'Indiis' ["Pulau Salang" [Phuket, Thailand]]. (NHML, photo examined). (homonym)
Pareronia anais ♀-f. lutea Eliot, 1978 : Butts. Malay Penin. (3rd.ed.):467. (replacement name for Papilio philomela Fabricius).

Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Pareronia valeria hippia ; Pendlebury,1923 : 28. (Nakhon Sri Thammarat: Lan Saka)
Pareronia valeria hippia ; Godfrey,1931 : 192. (Ko Tao)
Pareronia valeria hippia ; Godfrey,1932a : 265. (P)
Pareronia valeria lutescens ; Pinratana,1983 : 23, pl.18, figs.41,♂,♀. (Krabi; Ranong; Phuket; Trang; Yala)
Pareronia valeria lutescens ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 164, pl.54, figs.Pi44,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Krabi; Yala)
Pareronia valeria lutescens ; Kimura et al.,2011 : 153, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Kam Puan; Khlong Naka; Ka Chong; Than To WF.)
Pareronia valeria lutescens ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 164, pl.54, figs.Pi44,♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Krabi; Yala)
Pareronia valeria lutescens ; Küppers & Janikorn,2017 : 199, figs.Abb.Pi-080-086. (Phang Nga)

Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Ranong : 9♂ 2♀.

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

Yala : 1♂ (photo by S.Atdhabhan).

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

Notes

The butterfly is common in secondary and montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 10 - 800m). Both sexes visit flowers. The females mimic Parantica aspasia (Danainae).
According to Eliot (1978), Papilio philomela is a synonym of anais and also a homonym. Therefore, he described a replacement name ♀-f.lutea. However, after examination of the type specimen in the Banks collection, NHML, it is definitely a female of Pareronia valeria.
Characteristics of anais female ; black stripe in the cell on the UpH and along vein 1c on the UpF are conspicuous, Yellow area on the UpH only into the base of cell and the part of space 2, and never covers the whole cell and around. On the other hand, valeria female ; black stripe in the cell on the UpH and along vein 1c on the UpF are obscure, yellow area on the UpH entirely covers the whole cell and around. Thus, I consider it should be a synonym of valeria.

Literature

Butler, A.G.,1879 : Descriptions of new Butterflies of the Indian Region.
Cistula Entomologica. 2:431-432, pl.8, fig.1.

Corbet, A.S.,1941 : Observations on Certain of the Fabrician Names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (Lepid.)
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(6):98-106.

Cobert, A.S. & Pendlebury, H.M.,1956
The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula: Second Edition Revised.
537 pp, 55 (partly col.)pls. London.

Cobert, A.S. & Pendlebury, H.M.,1978 (Revised by Eliot, J.N.)
The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 3rd Edition.
577 pp, 438 figs, 35 pl. (29 in col.) Malayan Nature Society.

Eliot, J.N., 1992 : Cobert, A.S. & Pendlebury, H.M. (Revised by Eliot, J.N.), The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th Edition.
x + 595 + [69] pp., 69pp. of plates (some col.). Malayan Nature Society.

Smetacek, P., Cotton, A.M. & Inayoshi, Y.,2023 : Notes on Indian species of Pareronia Bingham, 1907 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
Bionotes 25(3):10-18.

♂, Yala, Thailand. (photo by S.Atdhabhan)

1996.10.31 - 2023.10.31.