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Orsotriaena Wallengren, 1858

Orsotriaena Wallengren, 1858; Öfvers. Vet. Akad. Förh. 15 : 79, TS: Papilio hesione Cramer
Orsotriaena, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Orstriaena ; Young, 1903, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 15 (2) : 301
Orsotrioena ; Bingham, 1905, Fauna Brit. Ind., Butts (ed. 1) 1: 69 (missp.)
Orsotriaena (Mycalesina) ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 176; [Wahlberg]

Orsotriaena medus (Fabricius, 1775)

Ceylon, S.India, Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Madhya Pradesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia. See [About maps] Nigger
Papilio medus Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 488, no. 198, TL: Capite Bonae Spei [Java]
?Mycalesis mandosa Butler, 1868; Cat. diurn. Lep. Satyridae Brit. Mus. : 139, pl. 3, f. 9, TL: South India
Orsotriaena medus, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Orsotriaena medus medus, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Orsotriaena medus, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Orsotriaena medus ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 8]; [BOR, 446]; [MRS, 361]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

512x341 (~30Kb) underside India: Itanagar, 13.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

512x341 (~38Kb) underside India: Guwahati, 17.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

Larva on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum [MRS], Imperata, Oryza, Oplismenus, Panicum, Saccharum Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 176

O. m. medus

N.India - Thailand, Timor, New Guinea - Papua, S.Yunnan Papilio hesione Cramer, [1775]; Uitl. Kapellen 1 (1-7): 16, pl. 11, f. C, D
Papilio doris Stoll, [1781]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (29-31): 141, pl. 352, f. C
Mycalesis runeka Moore, 1857
Orsotrianena medus medus f. turbata Fruhstorfer, 1908; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (4/5): 214
licium Fruhstorfer, 1908; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (4/5): 214
Orsotriaena medus medus ; [BOR, 446]; [BAUR, 262]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

O. m. mutata (Butler, [1876])

New Britain Mycalesis mutata Butler, [1876]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4) : 612, TL: Erromango, New Hebrides
Orsotriaena medus mutata ; [BAUR, 262 (text)]

O. m. moira Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

Banks Is., Darnley Is., Cape York Orsotriaena moira Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
Orsotriaena medus moira ; [BAUR, 262 (text)]

O. m. mandata (Moore, 1857)

Ceylon, S.India Mycalesis mandata Moore, 1857; in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy 1 : 233
Orsotriaena medus mandata ; [BOR, 446]

O. m. cinerea (Butler, 1867)

Sundaland Mycalesis cinerea Butler, 1867; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 20 (120) : 401, pl. 8, f. 9, TL: Singapore
Orsotriaena medus cinerea ; [BOR, 446]; [BMP: 131, pl. 17, f. 13-14]

998x1195 (~286Kb) underside Thailand, Phuket, a grassy swamp in the Nai Yang beach area. 21st February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

1148x1094 (~305Kb) underside Thailand, Phuket, a pond bank near Ban Sakhu. 15th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

O. m. zipoetina Fruhstorfer, 1908

Bali? Orsotriaena medus f.loc. zipoetina Fruhstorfer, 1908; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (4/5): 214, TL: Sumatra
Orsotriaena medus zipoetina ; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (1): 123

Orsotriaena jopas (Hewitson, 1862)

N.Sulawesi. See [About maps] Sulawesi Jungle Brown
Mycalesis jopas Hewitson, 1862; Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Mycalesis I-IV): [54], pl. [28], f. 24, TL: East India
Orsotriaena jopas ; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 8 (text only)]
Orsotriaena medus jopa[sic?] ; [BOR, 446]
Orsotriaena jopas ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

O. j. jopas

Sulawesi, Talaud, ?Banggai Orsotriaena jopas jopas ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

O. j. mendice Fruhstorfer, 1911²

S.Sulawesi Orsotriaena medus mendice ; [BOR, 446]
Orsotriaena jopa mendice ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

O. j. paupercula Fruhstorfer, 1908²

Bowokan, Sula Orsotriaena medus paupercula ; [BOR, 446]
Orsotriaena jopas paupercula ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 177

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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.

[BAUR]

D'Abrera, 1977; Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn)

[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

[Don Herbison-Evans]

and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans

[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

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[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:

Bingham, 1905

Butterflies. Vol. I. Fauna of British India Fauna Brit. Ind., Butts (ed. 1) 1: xxii, 511pp., 10pls

Butler, 1867

Description of new or little-known Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 20 (120) : 399-404, pl. 8-9

Butler, 1868

A catalogue of diurnal Lepidoptera of the family Satyridae in the collection of the British Museum Cat. diurn. Lep. Satyridae Brit. Mus. : 1-211, pl. 1-5

Butler, [1876]

On a Collection of Butterflies from the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands with Descriptions of new Species Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4) : 610-619, pl. 67

Cramer, [1775]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 1 (1-7): 1-132, pl. 1-84 (1775), (8): 133-155, pl. 85-96 (1776)

Fabricius, 1775

Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Syst. Ent.: 832pp

Fruhstorfer, 1908

Neue indo-australische Mycalesis und Besprechung verwandter Formen Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (2/3): 126-128 (22 April), (4/5): 129-224, pl. 1 (20 June), (6/7): 225-239 (1 October)

Hewitson, 1862

Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson Ill. exot. Butts [4] : (Systematic Index) IV, (Clerome): [1-2], pl. [1] (1863), (Drusilla & Hyantis): [3-4], pl. [2] (1862), (Dasyophthalma & Thaumantis): [5-6], pl. [3] (1862), (Morpho I): [7-8], pl. [4] (1856), (Pavonia I-II): [9-10], pl. [5-6] (1877), (Opsiphanes): [11-12], pl. [7] (1873), (Corades): [13-14], pl. [8] (1863), (Pronophila): [15-16], pl. [9] (1857), (Pronophila II): [17-18], pl. [10] (1860), (Pronophila III-IV): [19-22], pl. [11-12] (1868), (Pronophila V): [23-24], pl. [13] (1871), (Pronophila VI-VII): [25-28], pl. [14-15] (1872), (Pronophila VIII-IX): [29-32], pl. [16-17] (1874), (Debis I): [33-34], pl. [18] (1862), (Debis II-III): [35-38], pl. [19-20] (1863), (Haetera): [39-40], pl. [21] (1860), (Daedalma): [41-42], pl. [22] (1858), (Euptychia & Ragadia): [43-44], pl. [23] (1862), (Hypocista): [45-46], pl. [24] (1863), (Mycalesis I-IV): [47-54], pl. [25-28] (1862), (Mycalesis V-VI): [55-58], pl. [29-30] (1864), (Mycalesis VII-VIII): [59-62], pl. [31-32] (1866), (Mycalesis IX): [63-64], pl. [33] (1873), (Mycalesis & Idiomorphus): [65-66], pl. [34] (1877), (Idiomorphus): [67-68], pl. [35] (1865), (Melanitis): [69-70], pl. [36] (1863), (Taxila): [71-72], pl. [37] (1861), (Taxila II): [73-74], pl. [38] (1862), (Sospita): [75-76], pl. [39] (1861), (Sospita II): [77-78], pl. [40] (1862), (Dodona Sospita): [79-80], pl. [41] (1866), (Mesosemia I): [81-82], pl. [42] (1857), (Mesosemia II-III): [83-86], pl. [43-44] (1858), (Mesosemia IV-VI): [87-92], pl. [45-47] (1859), (Mesosemia VII-VIII): [93-96], pl. [48-49] (1860), (Mesosemia IX-X): [97-100], pl. [50-51] (1870), (Mesosemia XI): [101-102], pl. [52] (1871), (Mesosemia XII): [103-104], pl. [53] (1873), (Eurygona I-II): [105-108], pl. [54-55] (1853), (Eurygona III-IV): [109-112], pl. [56-57] (1855), (Eurygona V-VII): [113-118], pl. [58-60] (1856), (Eurygona VIII): [119-120], pl. [61] (1860), (Eurygona IX): [121-122], pl. [62] (1870), (Eurygona X): [123-124], pl. [63] (1872)

Moore, 1857

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

Rothschild, 1915

On Lepidoptera from the islands of Ceram (Seran), Buru, Bali, and Misol Novit. Zool. 22 (1): 105-144, (2): 209-227

Stoll, [1781]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): 29-90, pl. 305-336 (1780), (29-31): 91-164, pl. 337-372 (1781), (32-32): 165-252, 1-29, pl. 373-400 (1782)

Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003

The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16

Wallengren, 1858

Nya Fjärilslägten Öfvers. Vet. Akad. Förh. 15 : 75-84,135-142,209-215

Young, 1903

The Classification of the Lepidoptera Papilionina J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 15 (2) : 294-311

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