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Hestina Westwood, [1850]

Sirens
Hestina Westwood, [1850]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 281 (35), TS: Papilio assimilis Linnaeus
Diagora Snellen, 1894; Tijdschr. Ent. 37: 67, TS: Apatura japonica C. & R. Felder
Parhestina Moore, [1896]; Lepidoptera Indica 3 (26): 34 (unn. repl. Diagora Snellen, 1894), TS: Apatura japonica C. & R. Felder
Hestinalis Bryk, 1938; in Stichel, Lep. Cat. 86: 291, TS: Hestina mimetica Butler
Hestina [Wahlberg]
Hestina (Apaturinae) ; [Wahlberg]
Hestinalis (Apaturinae) ; [Wahlberg]

600x400 (~21Kb) India: Assam, Guwahati, December 2004, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

600x400 (~40Kb) upperside India: Assam, Guwahati, December 2004, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

The exact identification of these species is still unknown, but tentatively assumed to belong into this group.

Hestina nama (Doubleday, 1845)

Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, Indo-China - Hainan, ?Peninsular Malaya. See [About maps] Circe
Diadema nama Doubleday, 1845; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (1) 16 (105): 232
?nama (Doubleday, 1844); List. lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 97
Hestina nama [Wahlberg]
Hestinalis nama [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Hestina nama ; [BOW: pl. 145, f. 10]; [BOR, 377]; [MRS, 451]
Hestinalis nama ;

Mimics Danaus tytia and Danaus melanippus. [BOW]

H. n. nama

S.Yunnan, ...? Hestinalis nama nama ; Huang & Xue, 2004, Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 140 (name)

H. n. namida Fruhstorfer, 1906

Sumatra

Hestina mimetica Butler, 1874

-. See [About maps] Hestina mimetica Butler, 1874; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4): 426
Hestina mimetica ; [BOR, 377]

H. m. mimetica

Java Hestina mimetica mimetica ; [BOR, 377]

H. m. ruvanella Fruhstorfer, 1913

Peninsular Malaya Hestina ruvanella Fruhstorfer, 1913; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9(175) : 704 (5 August, 1913),
Hestina mimetica ruvanella ; [BMP: 196, pl. 29, f. 6]; [BOR, 377]

H. m. carolinae Snellen²

Sumatra ?namida Fruhstorfer
Hestina mimetica carolinae ; [BOR, 378]

Hestina divona Hewitson, 1861²

Sulawesi. See [About maps] divona Hewitson, 1861²; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1861: 50
Hestina divona ; [BOR, 378]

Hestina dissimilis Hall, 1935²

Philippines (Luzon). See [About maps] dissimilis Hall, 1935²; Entomologist 68: 223
Hestina dissimilis ; [BOR, 378]

Hestina waterstradti Watkins, 1928

Philippines (Mindanao). See [About maps] Hestina waterstradti Watkins, 1928; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 2: 92
Hestina waterstradti ; [BOR, 378]

Hestina japonica (C. & R. Felder, 1862)

-. See [About maps] Apatura japonica C. & R. Felder, 1862; Wien. ent. Monats. 6: 27

958x627 (~58Kb) Kanazawa, Japan, 9-93, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

940x647 (~63Kb) larva Kanazawa, Japan, 8-90, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

H. j. japonica

Japan Hestina japonica japonica ; [Bernard Rond]

H. j. seoki Shirôzu, 1955

Korea seoki Shirôzu, 1955²; Sieboldia 1: 232
Hestina japonica seoki ; [Bernard Rond]
Diagora seoki ;

Hestina assimilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tibet, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan. See [About maps] Papilio assimilis Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 479
Hestina assimilis assimilis [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Hestina assimilis ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 195, f. 11]; [BOR, 379]; [MRS, 447]

750x989 (~174Kb) upperside Japan: Tokyo, 8.8.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant

H. a. assimilis

S.China, Hong Kong Diagora assimilis assimilis
Diagora assimilis assimilis ; [BOR, 379]

H. a. formosana Moore

Taiwan Diagora assimilis formosana ; [BOR, 379]
Hestina assimilis formosana ; [MRS, 447]

Larva on Celtis formosana, C. sinensis, Trema orientalis [MRS]

H. a. shirakii Shirozu, 1955

Japan

H. a. f. nigrivena Leech

Hestina assimilis f. nigrivena ; [MRS, 447]

Hestina mena Moore, 1858

W.China - Upper Burma. See [About maps] Hestina mena Moore, 1858; : 48
viridis Leech²
Hestina mena [Wahlberg]
Hestina assimilis mena ; [MRS, 447]
Hestina mena ; [BOW: pl. 195, f. 9]; [Bernard Rond]

Larva on Celtis sinensis [MRS]

H. m. subdecora Fruhstorfer²

Korea Hestina mena subdecora ; [Bernard Rond]

Hestina persimilis (Westwood, 1850)

W.China, Simla - Assam, Orissa. See [About maps] Siren
persimilis (Westwood, 1850); Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 281
Hestina persimilis persimilis [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Hestina persimilis ; [EBW]; [BOR, 379]; [MRS, 449]

Larva on Celtis australis [BIR]

H. p. persimilis

Nepal, Sikkim, ?Bhutan Diagora persimilis persimilis
Diagora persimilis persimilis ; [BOR, 379]

H. p. zella Butler²

Kashmir Diagora persimilis zella ; [BOR, 379 (note)]

H. p. chinensis Leech, 1890

W.China Hestina chinensis Leech, 1890; Entomologist 23 : 32
subviridis Leech, 1891²; Entomologist 24 (Suppl.): 27

= ; [Bernard Rond]

yankowskii Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1895²; Rhopal. Exot.: 16
Diagora chinensis ;
Hestina persimilis chinensis ; [MRS, 449]
Diagora subviridis ; Huang, 2001
Hestina subviridis ; [BOW: pl. 195, f. 3]
Diagora yankowskii ;
Hestina subviridis f. yankowskii ; Stichel in Seitz, [Bernard Rond]

Hestina jermyni Druce, 1911²

Himalayas. See [About maps] jermyni Druce, 1911²; trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1911: 187
Diagora jermyni ;

Hestina ouvradi Riley, 1939

China. See [About maps] Hestina ouvradi Riley, 1939; Novit. zool. 41: 358
Diagora ouvradi ;
Hestina ouvradi ; [MRS, 449]

Hestina nicevillei (Moore, [1895])

Nepal (Katmandu Valley). See [About maps] Parhestina nicevillei Moore, [1895]; Lepidoptera Indica 3 (26): 37 (1896)
Diagora nicevillei ;
nicevilei? ;
Hestina nicevillei ; [Peter Smetacek]

H. n. magna Omoto & Funahashi, 2004

Hestina namoides de Nicéville²

Tibet, S.China. See [About maps] Hestina namoides ; [Bernard Rond]

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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

[Kedar Tokekar]

India

[LAMAS-2005]

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

[MRS]

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

[Peter Payzant]

Canada; http://www.pbase.com/ppayzant/profile

[Peter Smetacek]

Nature research & adventure in the Himalaya

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

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

[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

[²]

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

Some related literature:

Butler, 1874

Descriptions of some new species and a new genus of diurnal Lepidoptera in the collection of Herbert Druce Esq Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4): 423-436, pl. 6

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)

Fruhstorfer, 1913

6. Familie: Nymphalidae in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9 : 453-456 (31 January, 1912) 457-488 (18 March, 1912) 489-496 (25 May, 1912) 489-496 (10 May, 1912) 497-504 (15 April, 1912) 505-512 (10 May, 1912) 513-528 (11 April, 1912) 529-552 (20 April, 1912) 553-592 (15 May, 1912) 593-616 (25 September, 1912) 617-632 (15 October, 1912) 633-640 (25 October, 1912) 641-656 (10 January, 1913) 657-664 (12 January, 1913) 665-680 (13 January, 1913) 681-688 (25 January, 1913) 689-696 (16 June, 1913) 697-704 (5 August, 1913) 705-712 (20 January, 1914) 713-720 (20 November, 1913) 721-744 (9 March, 1914) 745-751 (30 July, 1915) 753-760 (28 March, 1914) 761-766 (14 April, 1914)

Hall, 1935

New forms of Nymphalinae and Ithomiinae Entomologist 68: 221-227, pl. ?1, ?6

Huang & Xue, 2004

A Contribution to the Butterfly Fauna of Southern Yunnan Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 135-154, pl. 11

Leech, 1890

New species of Lepidoptera from China Entomologist 23 (2): 25-26 : 26-50 81-83 109-114, pl. 1

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338 339-824

Moore, [1895]; Moore, [1896]

Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera. Family Nymphalidae. Sub-family Nymphalinae (continued), Groups Potamina, Euthalina, Limenitina Lepidoptera Indica 3 (25): 1-24, pl. 191-198 (1896) (26): 25-48, pl. 199-206 (1896) (27): 49-72, pl. 207-214 (1897) (28): 73-96, pl. 215-222 (1897) (29): 97-112, pl. 223-230 (1897) (30): 113-128, pl. 231-238 (1898) (31): 129-144, pl. 239-246 (1898) (32): 145-168, pl. 247-254 (1898) (33): 169-192, pl. 255-262 (1898) (34): 193-216, pl. 263-270 (1898) (35): 217-232, pl. 271-278 (1898) (36): 233-254, pl. 279-286 (1899)

Riley, 1939

Notes on oriental Theclinae (Lepidopera, Lycaenidae) with description of new species Novit. zool. 41: 355-361

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