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Euripus Doubleday, [1848]

Courtesans
Euripus Doubleday, [1848]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): pl. 41, f. 2, TS: Euripus halitherses Doubleday
Idrusia Corbet, 1943; Entomologist 76: 206 (unn. repl. for Euripus Doubleday, [1848])
Euripus [Wahlberg]
Euripus (Apaturinae) ; [Wahlberg]

Larva on Urticaceae [BMP]

Euripus consimilis (Westwood, 1850)

S.India, Dehra Dun - Assam, Burma. See [About maps] Painted Courtesan
Diadema consimilis Westwood, 1850; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 281
Euripus consimilis ; [BOW: pl. 143, f. 6-7]; [BOR, 381]

Larva on Trema orientalis [BIR]

E. c. consimilis

N.India - Burma (Tenasserim) - N.Thailand ?sunta Fruhstorfer
Euripus consimilis consimilis ; [BOR, 381]

E. c. meridionalis Wood-Mason˛

S.India Euripus consimilis meridionalis ; [BOR, 381]

E. c. eurinus Fruhstorfer, 1903

Thailand Euripus consimilis eurinus [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Euripus consimilis eurinus ; [Bernard Rond]

Euripus nyctelius (Doubleday, 1845)

Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Malaya, Indo-China. See [About maps] Courtesan
Diadema nyctelius Doubleday, 1845; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (1) 16 (104): 182
Euripus halitherses Doubleday, [1848]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): pl. 41, f. 2
Euripus nyctelius [Wahlberg]
Euripus nyctelius nyctelius [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Euripus nyctelius ; [EBW]; [MRS, 446]
Euripus halitherses ; [BOW: pl. 143, f. 8-9]
Euripus halitherses f. isa ; [BIR, female form, mimic Euploea diocletiana]
Euripus halitherses f. nyctelius ; [BIR, female form, mimic Euploea]
Euripus halitherses f. cinnamoneus ; [BIR, female form, mimic Euploea]
Euripus halitherses f. alcathaeoides ; [BIR, female form, mimic Euploea]

Females mimic Euploea species. [BIR, (for E. halitherses)]

Larva on Trema orientalis, Urticaceae [MRS]

E. n. nyctelius

Sikkim, Assam, Burma, ?N.Thailand Euripus nyctelius nyctelius ; [BOR, 381]
Euripus nyctelius f. niasicus ; [BOR, 381, f.]

E. n. mastor Fruhstorfer, 1903

Indo China Euripus nyctelius mastor ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. euploeoides C. & R. Felder, [1867]

Peninsular Malaya, ?S.Thailand, Singapore, Langkawi, Sumatra, S.Yunnan Euripus euploeoides C. & R. Felder, [1867]; Reise Fregatte Novara, Lep. Rhop. (3): 415
?haterius Fruhstorfer
Idrusia nyctelius euploeoides f. isina Corbet, 1947; Entomologist 80 (2): 29
Euripus nyctelius euploeoides ; [BMP: 194, pl. 29, f. 8]; [BOR, 381]; [MRS, 446]
Euripus nyctelius euploeoides f. euploeoides ; [BMP: 194, pl. 29, f. 10]
Euripus nyctelius euploeoides f. isina ; [BMP: 194, pl. 29, f. 9]

E. n. niasicus Fruhstorfer˛

Nias Euripus nyctelius niasicus ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. javanus Fruhstorfer˛

Java Euripus nyctelius javanus ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. borneensis Distant & Pryer

Borneo Euripus borneensis Distant & Pryer, 1887; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 19 (109) (109): 54
Euripus nyctelius borneensis ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. palawanicus Fruhstorfer˛

Philippines (Palawan) Euripus nyctelius palawanicus ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. clytia Felder˛

Philippines (Luzon) ?ankaeus Semper
Euripus nyctelius clytia ; [BOR, 381]
Euripus nyctelius clytia f. clytia ; [BOR, 381, f.]
Euripus nyctelius clytia f. lucasioides ; [BOR, 381, f.]

E. n. orestheion Fruhstorfer˛

Philippines (Mindoro) Euripus nyctelius orestheion ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. nysia Semper˛

Philippines (Bohol, Mindanao) ?peirithous Fruhstorfer
Euripus nyctelius nysia ; [BOR, 381]

E. n. sumatrensis Fruhstorfer˛

Sumatra Euripus nyctelius sumatrensis ; [Bernard Rond]

E. n. ophelion Fruhstorfer˛

Bangka Euripus nyctelius ophelion ; [Bernard Rond]

Euripus robustus Wallace, 1869˛

Sulawesi. See [About maps] robustus Wallace, 1869˛; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1869 (4): 348
Euripus robustus ; [BOR, 381]

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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.

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[BIR]

Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)

[BMP]

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

[BOR]

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

[BOW]

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

[Bernard Rond]

e-mail: Bernard Rond

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[MRS]

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

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

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

[˛]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Corbet, 1947

Papers on Malayasian Rhopalocera 1. The forms of Idrusia nyctelius (Dbl. 1845) in the Malay Peninsula Entomologist 80 (2): 28-29

Distant & Pryer, 1887

On the Rhopalocera of Northern Borneo. Part I & II Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 19 (109) (109): 41-56 (112): 264-275

Doubleday, 1845

Descriptions of new or imperfectly described Diurnal Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (1) 16 (104): 176-182 (105): 232-236 (106): 304-308

Westwood, 1850

The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846) 19-132, pl. 4x, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847) 133-200, pl. 1x, 26, 27, 29, 31-44 (15-23) (1848) 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849) 243-250 [?] (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850) 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851) 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)

C. & R. Felder, [1867]

Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" - Zoolog. 2 (2). Lepidoptera 1. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara, Lep. Rhop. (3): Heft (3), 379-548, pls. 48-74

Wallace, 1869

Notes on eastern Butterflies (3 parts) Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1869 (?): 77-81 (4): 277-288 321-349

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