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Orsotriaena Wallengren, 1858

Orsotriaena Wallengren, 1858; Öfvers. K.VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockh., 15: 79, TS: Papilio hesione Cramer
Orsotriaena [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) ; [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 [Wahlberg]
Orsotriaena medus medus [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Orsotriaena medus [Don Herbison-Evans]
Orsotriaena medus ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 8]; [BOR, 446]; [MRS, 361]

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]

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 (20 June)
licium Fruhstorfer, 1908; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (4/5): 214 (20 June)
Orsotriaena medus medus ; [BOR, 446]; [BAUR, 262]

O. m. mutata Butler²

New Britain 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
Orsotriaena medus cinerea ; [BMP: 131, pl. 17, f. 13-14]; [BOR, 446]

O. m. jopas (Hewitson, [1864])

N.Sulawesi Mycalesis jopas Hewitson, [1864]; Ill. exot. Butts 3 (43): 86 (1862), (44): pl. 4, f. 24
Orsotriaena jopas ; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 8 (text only)]
Orsotriaena medus jopa[sic?] ; [BOR, 446]

O. m. zipoetina Fruhstorfer, 1908

Bali? Orsotriaena medus f.loc. zipoetina Fruhstorfer, 1908; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 58 (4/5): 214 (20 June), TL: Sumatra
Orsotriaena medus zipoetina ; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (1): 123

O. m. mendice Fruhstorfer²

S.Sulawesi Orsotriaena medus mendice ; [BOR, 446]

O. m. paupercula Fruhstorfer²

Sula Is. Orsotriaena medus paupercula ; [BOR, 446]

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References:

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[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+)

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[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

[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

Cramer, [1775]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 1 (1-7): 1-132, pl. 1-84 (1775) (8): 133-156, 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, [1864]

Illustrations of new species of exoctic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson (1862-1865) Ill. exot. Butts 3 (41): [79-82],[105-106], pl. [40-41],[53] (1862) (42): [59-60],[83-84],[107-108], pl. [30],[42],[54] (1862) (43): [69-70],[73-74],[85-86], pl. [35],[37],[43] (1862) (44): [7-8],[67-68],[97-98], pl. [4],[34],[49] (1862) (45): [29-30],[65-66] (1863) (46): [61-62],[75-78],[101-102], pl. [31],[38-39],[51] (1863) (47): [13-14],[99-100],[115-116], pl. [7],[50],[58] (1863) (48): [63-64],[71-72],[117-118], pl. [32],[36],[59] (1863) (49): [1-2],[17-18],[27-28], pl. [1],[9],[14] (1864) (50): [19-24], pl. [10-12] (1864) (51): [25-26],[33-34],[55-56], pl. [13],[17],[28] (1864) (52): [41-42],[87-90], pl. [21],[44-45] (1864) (53): [3-4],[31-32],[43-46], pl. [2],[16],[22-23] (1865) (54): [5-6],[35-36], pl. [3],[18] (1865) (55): [15-16],[109-112], pl. [8],[55-56] (1865) (56): [37-38],[45-46],[95-96], pl. [19],[23],[48] (1865) (57): [49-50],[91-92],[103-104],[119-120], pl. [25],[46],[52],[60] (1866) (58): [51-52],[57-58], pl. [26],[29] (1866) (59): [9-10],[39-40],[93-94], pl. [5],[20],[47] (1866) (60): [11-12],[53-54],[113-114],[121-124], pl. [6],[27],[57] (1866)

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. 1-11,1a,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)

Young, 1903

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

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