Mycalesis inayoshii  Aoki & Yamaguchi, 1995

Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Up. Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Un. Mycalesis inayoshii ♀ Up. Mycalesis inayoshii ♀ Un.
♂, Nan, Thailand. Paratype ♀, Nan, Thailand. Paratype
Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Up. Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Un. Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Up. Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Un.
♂, Nan, Thailand. Paratype ♂, Xieng Khouang, Laos. (photo by H.Onodera)

ON : Mycalesis inayoshii Aoki & Yamaguchi, 1995
OD : Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46(4):247, figs.1(HT,♂), 2(HT,♂UN),
3(PT,♀), 4(PT,♀Un), 5(♂ genitalia), 6(♀ genitalia).
TL : Doi Phu Kha, Nan, Thailand. (RIEB)
Distribution : N.Thailand (Confined to Nan), Laos.
Mycalesis inayoshii map

Type Materials Information

Holotype and Paratypes are all from Doi Phu Kha, Nan, Thailand. All Types are examined.
Holotype ♂, 1993.04.05. Doi Phu Kha, Nan, Thailand. (RIEB)
Paratypes ; 52♂ 4♀ (RIEB ; TME ; THNHM ; in coll. Y.Inayoshi ; P.Sukkit)


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 274, pl.109, figs.S66,♂,♂(Un). (in part)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Ek-Amnuay et al.,2007 : 4, figs.S66,♂,♀(PT). (Doi Phu Kha)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 274, pl.109, figs.N101,♂,♂(Un), pl.110, figs.N101,♂,♂(Un). (Doi Phu Kha)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Kimura et al.,2016 : 186, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Doi Phu Kha)

[ LAOS ]
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 211, pl.95, figs.♂,♀. (Xam Neua)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Uémura,2004 : 4, fig.26,map. (Xam Neua)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Uémura,2006 : 6, fig.34,map. (Phun Pan)
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 49.
Mycalesis inayoshii ; Onodera,2022 : 60, pl.178, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Xiengkhouang: Phou Samsoum)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Nan : 54♂ 4♀ (incl. photo).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


[ LAOS ]
Xieng Khouang : 2♂ (photo by H.Onodera).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The butterfly is locally common in hill evergreen forests with the undergrowth of the dense thicket of Arundinaria at 1700 to 1980m. It usually flies near the ground below 0.6m and is very cautious.


Literature

Aoki, T. & Yamaguchi, S.,1995 :
A new species of the genus Mycalesis from the hill evergreen forest of northern Thailand. (Lepidoptera : Satyridae)
Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46(4):247-251, 6 figs.


Mycalesis inayoshii ♂ Mycalesis inayoshii ♂
♂, Nan, Thailand. ♂ with Mycalesis francisca, Nan, Thailand.

1998.12.05 - 2023.07.31.

A Check list of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM. Copyright © 1996- Y.Inayoshi.