ON : Melanitis esaca Westwood, 1851 OD : In: Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. 2(45): 405. TL : 'East Indies' [recte W.Malaysia]. Distribution : P.Thailand (Yala), W.Malaysia, {Singapore}. ● ssp.andersonii ● ssp.esaca

Elymnias godferyi Distant, 1883 ; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)12: 351; TL: Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula.
Dyctis esacoides Nicéville, 1893 ; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7(3): 323–352, pl.H, fig.2,♂; TL: Perak, Malay Peninsula. (NZC)

esacoides ; ♂ Type, Perak. (NZC) ; Sheela et al.,2019 : 193, figs.♂,♂(Un).

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Elymnias esaca andersonii : Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 238, pl.91, figs.S15,♂,♂(Un). (Than To) (partim)
Elymnias esaca andersonii : Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 238, pl.91, figs.N51,♂,♂(Un). (Than To) (partim)
Elymnias esaca andersonii : Wei et al.,2017 ; 91, fig.1, N♂ (Yala, Than To)
Elymnias esaca esaca : Wei et al.,2017 ; 92, fig.2, C♂ (Yala, Than To)

[ THAILAND ]
Yala : 1♀ (photo by S.Atdhabhan).

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The butterfly is rather localised and hitherto has been known only from Yala, P. Thailand. It is uncommon in lowland forests (450 m a.s.l.).

Westwood, J.O, 1851. In: Doubleday, E., The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus.
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 2(45): 399–410, pl. 68. ([5].Jul.1851)

Distant, W.L, 1883. Contributions to a Knowledge of Malayan Entomology. Part II.
Annals and Magazine of natural History, (5)12: 351–353.

Nicéville, L. de, 1893. On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region.
Journal of the Bombay natural History Society, 7(3): 322–357, pls. H–J.

Aoki, T, Yamaguchi, S. & Uémura, Y, 1982. In: Tsukada, E. (Ed.), Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands vol.3.
Satyridae, Amathusiidae and Libytheidae.
Plapac co. Ltd., Tokyo, 530 pp, 113 pls. (in Japanese)

Wei, C-H, Lohman, D, Peggie, D. & Yen, S-H, 2017. An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).
Zookeys, 676: 47–152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.676.12579

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

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