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Sephisa Moore, 1882
Courtiers
Sephisa Moore, 1882; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882: 240 (repl. Castalia Westwood), TS: Limenitis dichroa Kollar
Castalia Westwood, [1850]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 303 (preocc. Castalia Lamarck, 1810, Castalia Savigny, 1822, Castalia Laporte & Gory, 1837), TS: Limenitis dichroa Kollar
Castalia Moore, 1857; in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 199, TS: Limenitis dichroa Kollar
Sephisa [Wahlberg]
Sephisa (Nymphalidae) ; [BRU2, 15]
Sephisa (Apaturinae) ; [Wahlberg]

Sephisa dichroa (Kollar, [1844])
NW.Himalayas, Chitral - Kumaon, SE.China. See [About maps] Western Courtier
Limenitis dichroa Kollar, [1844]; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek, 4 (2): 429, pl. 8, f. 1-2, TL: W.Himalaya
Sephisa dichroa [Wahlberg]
Sephisa dichroa ; [BOW: pl. 197, f. 14]; [BARU, #112]

Larva on Quercus incana [BIR], Quercus mongolica [BARU]


Sephisa princeps Fixsen, 1887
Amurland, NE.China, Korea. See [About maps] Sephisa princeps Fixsen, 1887; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 289, pl. 13, f. 7a, b, TL: "Pung-Tung" [Korea]
Sephisa dichroa princeps Fixsen, 1887
cauta (Leech, 1887)
albimacula Leech, 1890
Spehisa dichroa princeps ; [Bernard Rond]
Sephisa dichroa princeps ; [BARU]
Sephisa princeps albomacula ; [MRS, 441]
Sephisa princeps f. albomacula ; [Bernard Rond]
Sephisa princeps ; [MRS, 441]; [BRU2: 15, pl. 5, f. 7-10]
S. p. tamla Sugiyama, 1999
Yunnan, ...? Sephisa princeps tamla ; Huang, 2003, Neue Ent. Nachr. 55: 90 (note)

Sephisa chandra (Moore, [1858])
Sikkim - Assam, Karens. See [About maps] Eastern Courtier
Castalia chandra Moore, [1858]; in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 200, pl. 6a, f. 4
chandra f. albina; (femalo form)
Sephisa chandra [Wahlberg]
Sephisa chandra chandra [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Sephisa chandra ; [BOW: pl. 198, f. 2]; [EBW]; [BOR, 374]; [MRS, 441]

The females mimic Euploea. [BIR]

Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, N.Thailand, Indo China, W.China Sephisa chandra chandra ; [BOR, 374]
S. c. stubbsi Corbet, 1941
Peninsular Malaya, ?Peninsular Thailand Sephisa stubbsi Corbet, 1941; J. fed. Malay St. Mus. 18 (5): 810
Sephisa chandrana Evans, 1912; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21 (2): 574
Sephisa chandra stubbsi [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Sephisa chandra stubbsi ; [BMP: 195, pl. 29, f. 7, 14]; [BOR, 374]
Sephisa chandra stubbsi f. chandrana ; [BMP, (female form)]
S. c. androdamas Fruhstorfer
Taiwan Sephisa chandra androdamas ; [BOR, 374]; [MRS, 441]
Zhejiang Sephisa chandra zhejiangana Tong, 1994; in Chou, Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium 1-2: 761, 441, f. 39, TL: taishun 600m, Zhejiang

Sephisa daimio Matsumura, 1910
Taiwan Sephisa daimio Matsumura, 1910; Ent. Z. 23: 209
Sephisa taiwana Wileman
Sephisa daimio ; [EBW]; [BOR, 374]; [MRS, 442]

Larva on Quercus glauca [MRS]



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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.
[BARU]
Korshunov, Y. P., Gorbunov, P. Y.; Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia; English translation by Oleg Kosterin; [Dnevnye babochki aziatskoi chasti Rossii. Spravochnik]
[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
[BRU2]
Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2
[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


Some related literature:
Corbet, 1941
A further contribution to a knowledge of the Rhopalocera of the Malay Peninsula J. fed. Malay St. Mus. 18 (5): 805-313
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)
Evans, 1912
A list of Indian butterflies J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21 (2): 553-584 (3): 969-1008
Fixsen, 1887
Lepidoptera aus Korea in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 233-356, pl. 13-15
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
Moore, 1857; Moore, [1858]
A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 1-278, pl. 1-11,1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a


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