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Taraka Doherty, 1889

Taraka Doherty, 1889; J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 58 Pt.II (4) : 414 (MS?)
Taraka de Nicéville, 1890; in Marshall & de Nicéville, Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3 : 15, 57, TS: Miletus hamada Druce
Taraka (Tarakini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 427
Taraka (Spalgini) ; [BMP]

Taraka hamada (Druce, 1875)

W.China, C.China, Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Chittagong Hill Tracts. See [About maps] Forest Pierrot
Miletus hamada Druce, 1875; Cistula ent. 1 (12) : 361, TL: Japan
Miletus hamada ; de Nicéville, [1884], J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 52 Pt.II (2/4) : 76, pl. 1, f. 16 ♂
Taraka hamada ; Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3) : 571; [BOW: pl. 206, f. 47]; [BOR, 546]
Tarakini hamada ; [MRS, 615]

1024x768 (~112Kb) Ranzan, Saitama, Japan, 7-95, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

Larva on Aphis gossypii [MRS]

T. h. hamada

Taraka hamada hamada ; Tamai & Guo, 2001, Futao (39): 12 (note), pl. 1, f. 17-18

T. h. mendesia Fruhstorfer, 1918

Sikkim - Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Yunnan Taraka hamada mendesia Fruhstorfer, 1918; Tijdschr. Ent. 61 (1/2) : 23, TL: ?Sumatra [?Cachar, Assam]
Taraka hamada mendesia, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Taraka hamada mendesia ; [BMP: 226, pl. 33, f. 57-58]; [BOR, 546]; Huang, 2003, Neue Ent. Nachr. 55: 102 (note)

T. h. nivata Fruhstorfer, 1918

Java, ?Bali, ?Lombok Taraka hamada nivata Fruhstorfer, 1918; Tijdschr. Ent. 61 (1/2) : 24
Taraka hamada nivata ; [BOR, 546]

T. h. thalaba Fruhstorfer, 1922

hamada thalaba Fruhstorfer, 1922; in Seitz, Fauna Indoaust: 884
Taraka hamada thalaba ; [MRS, 615]

T. h. isona Fruhstorfer, 1922

hamada isona Fruhstorfer, 1922; in Seitz, Fauna Indoaust: 884
Taraka hamada isona ; [MRS, 615]

T. h. formosana Matsumura, 1927

Formosa Taraka hamada formosana Matsumura, 1927; Ins. Matsumurana 2 (2) : 117, pl. 3, f. 7, TL: Formosa

Taraka mahanetra de Nicéville, 1890

Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Thailand. See [About maps] Taraka mahanetra de Nicéville, 1890; in Marshall & de Nicéville, Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3 : 59
?Taraka mahanetra Doherty, ?1899; 129
Taraka hantu Corbet, 1938; Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 87 (5): 162, pl. 1, f. 9
Taraka martini Corbet, 1941; J. fed. Malay St. Mus. 18 (5): 812
Taraka mahanetra, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Taraka mahanetra ; [BMP: 226, pl. 33, f. 59]; [BOR, 546]

Taraka shiloi Tamai & Guo, 2001

Sichuan. See [About maps] Taraka shiloi Tamai & Guo, 2001; Futao (39): 12, pl. 2, f. 13-16, TL: Qingchenghoushan, Dujiangyan, Sichuan

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[BOR]

D'Abrera, 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III

[BOW]

Lewis, 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[LAMAS-2005]

Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM

Some related literature:

Corbet, 1938

Celastrina and Taraka froms from the Malay Peninsula Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 87 (5): 161-164, 7figs, pl. 1

Corbet, 1941

A further contribution to a knowledge of the Rhopalocera of the Malay Peninsula J. fed. Malay St. Mus. 18 (5): 805-313

de Nicéville, [1884]

On new and little known Rhopalocera from the Indian Region J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 52 Pt.II (2/4) : 65-91, pl. 1, 9-10

Doherty, 1889

On certain Lycaenidae from lower Tenasserim J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 58 Pt.II (4) : 409-440, pl. 23

Druce, 1875

Descriptions of new Species of diurnal Lepidoptera Cistula ent. 1 (12) : 357-363

Druce, 1895

A Monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3) : 556-627, pl. 31-34

Eliot, 1973

The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6

Fruhstorfer, 1918

Revision der Gattung Castalius auf Grund der Morphologie der Generationsorgane Tijdschr. Ent. 61 (1/2) : 17-44, pl. 4-5 (15 July)

Huang, 2003

A list of butterflies collected from Nujiang (Lou Tse Kiang) and Dulongiang, China with descriptions of new species, and revisional notes Neue Ent. Nachr. 55: 3-114

de Nicéville in Marshall & de Nicéville, 1890

The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, a descriptive Handbook of all the known Species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that Region, with Notices of allied Species occurring in the neighbouring Countries along the Border, with numerous Illustrations. Vol. 3 Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3 : 1-503, pl. 25-29

Matsumura, 1927

Some new Butterflies Ins. Matsumurana 2 (2) : 114-118

Tamai & Guo, 2001

A new species of the genus Taraka (Lycaenidae) from China Futao (39): 10-12

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