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Sephisa Moore, 1882

Courtiers
Sephisa Moore, 1882; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882 (1) : 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, NSG Voucher Specimen [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: 429, pl. 8, f. 1-2, TL: W.Himalaya
Sephisa dichroa, NSG Voucher Specimen [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] Apatura princeps Fixsen, 1887; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 289, pl. 13, f. 7a, b, TL: "Pung-Tung" [Korea]
Sephisa dichroa princeps Fixsen, 1887
Apatura cauta Leech, 1887; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 : 417, pl. 35, f. 2
Sephisa princeps var. albimacula Leech, 1890; Entomologist 23 : 190, TL: Chang-Yang
Spehisa dichroa princeps ; [Bernard Rond]
Sephisa dichroa princeps ; [BARU]
Sephisa princeps albimacula ; [MRS, 441]
Sephisa princeps f. albimacula ; [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 f. horishana Matsumura, 1929; Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3) : 93, pl. 4, f. 11, TL: Formosa
Sephisa chandra, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Sephisa chandra chandra, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Sephisa chandra ; [BOW: pl. 198, f. 2]; [EBW]; [BOR, 374]; [MRS, 441]

The females mimic Euploea. [BIR]

S. c. chandra

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, Butterflies in Indo-China [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, 1908

Taiwan Sephisa chandra androdamas Fruhstorfer, 1908; Ent. Zs. 22 (29) : 119, TL: Kosempo
Sephisa chandra androdamas ab. scurrae Murayama, 1961; Tyô to Ga 11 (4): 59, f. 19, 25, TL: Mt. Morrison, Formosa
Sephisa chandra androdamas ; [BOR, 374]; [MRS, 441]

S. c. zhejiangana Tong, 1994

Zhejiang Sephisa chandra zhejiangana Tong, 1994; in Chou, Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium 1-2: 761, 441, f. 39, TL: taishun 600m, Zhejiang

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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 & Gorbunov; 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, 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, 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III

[BOW]

Lewis, 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

[CiNii]

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/

[EBW]

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

[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

[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), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29, 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 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

Fruhstorfer, 1908

Lepidopterologisches Pêle-Mêle. VI. Neue Rhopaloceren von Formosa Ent. Zs. 22 (29) : 118-119 (17 October)

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

Leech, 1887

On the Lepidoptera of Japan and Corea, Pt I. Rhopalocera Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 : 398-431, pl. 35-36

Leech, 1890

New species of Lepidoptera from China Entomologist 23 : 26-50, 81-83, : 109-114, : 187-192, pl. 1

Matsumura, 1910

Neue Rhopaloceren aus Formosa Ent. Zs. 23 (47) : 209

Matsumura, 1929

New butterflies from Japan, Korea and Formosa Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3) : 87-107, pl. 4

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. 1-12,1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a

Moore, 1882

List of the Lepidoptera collected by the Rev. J.H. Hocking, chiefly in the Kangra Discrict, N.W Hiamalaya; with Descriptions of new Genera and Species Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882 (1) : 234-263, pl. 11-12

Murayama, 1961

An unrecorded and some aberrant butterflies from Formosa [in Japanese] Tyô to Ga 11 (4): 54-61

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