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Lethe jalaurida

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal- 700053, India.
  • 2. Chongqing Museum of Natural History, Beibei, Chongqing, 400700, China.

Description

2. Lethe jalaurida (de Nicéville, 1881)

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Zophoessa jalaurida de Nicéville in Marshall & de Nicéville, 1881. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. 49: 245, type locality: Jalauri pass, N.W. Himalayas; Marshall & de Nicéville, 1882. Butt. India 1: 166, pl. X: 19♂; Moore, 1892. Lep. Ind. 1: 296, pl. 92: 2, 2a.

Lethe jalaurida: Doherty, 1886. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 55 (2): 117; Mackinnon & de Nicéville, 1897. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 11: 216; Bingham, 1905. Fauna Brit. Ind., Butt. 1: 98; Hannyngton, 1910. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 20: 135; D’Abrera, 1985. Butt. Orient. 2: 416.

Lethe jalaurida jalaurida: Fruhstorfer in Seitz, 1911. Macrolepid. World 9: 313; Evans, 1932. Iden. Ind. Butt. ed. 2: 103; Wynter-Blyth, 1940. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 41: 723; Talbot, [1949]. Fauna Brit. India, Butt. 2: 182.

Materials examined. INDIA: 1 ♂, Simla, 9000’, No 785/ Ind Mus. Lang Colln/ 4745—H9 (ZSI).

Diagnosis. 1) On both sides pale markings and stripes are whitish; 2) male brand is absent; 3) uncus is heavily bent downwards near the apex; 4) valva apex is evenly serrated; 5) aedeagus is without a dorsal ridge.

Distribution. NW India, W Nepal.

Notes

Published as part of Das, Gaurab Nandi, Lang, Song-Yun, Singh, Navneet & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Taxonomic notes on the jalaurida-subgroup of the genus Lethe (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), pp. 281-290 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3884654

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZSI
Scientific name authorship
de Niceville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Lethe
Species
jalaurida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lethe jalaurida (Niceville, 1881) sec. Das, Lang, Singh & Chandra, 2020

References

  • Marshall, G. & de Niceville, L. (1882) The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon 1. The Calcutta Central Press Co., LD., Calcutta, 327 pp., 17 pls.
  • D'Abrera, B. (1985) Nymphalidae, Satyridae & Amathusidae. In: Butterflies of the Oriental Region. II. Hill House Publishers, Melbourne, 245 - 533.