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Ancistroides Butler, 1874

Ancistroides Butler, 1874; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4) : 436, TS: Ancistroides longicornis Butler
Kerana Distant, 1886; Rhopalocera Malayana : 392, TS: Astictopterus armatus H. Druce
Ancistroides (Hesperiinae) ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 65

Ancistroides longicornis Butler, 1874

Borneo, Sumatra. See [About maps] Ancistroides longicornis Butler, 1874; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4) : 436, TL: Timor
Ancistroides longicornis ; [BOW: pl. 185, f. 3]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 66

Ancistroides nigrita (Latreille, [1824])

Sumatra, Malaya - Philippines. See [About maps] Hesperia nigrita Latreille, [1824]; in Godart, Ency. méth. 9 (2): 788, no. 157, TL: Java
Ancistroides nigrita ; [BOW: pl. 185, f. 4]; [MRS, 718]

Larva on Zingiber, Curcuma [BMP]

A. n. diocles (Moore, [1866])

Sikkim - Burma, N.Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, S.Yunnan Chocolate Demon
Nisoniades nigrita diocles Moore, [1866]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3) : 787, TL: Bengal
Ancistroides nigrita diocles, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Ancistroides nigrita diocles ; [MRS, 718]

A. n. maura (Snellen, [1880])

S.Vietnam Chocolate Demon
Tagiades maura Snellen, [1880]; Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8) : 28, TL: Sumatra
Ancistroides nigrita maura ; [BMP: 355, pl. 55, f. 6-7]

A. n. othonias (Hewitson, 1878)

S.Vietnam, S.Burma, Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Sipora, Bangka, Nias Astictopterus othonias Hewitson, 1878; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 1 (4) : 342, TL: Borneo
Kerana evaira Fruhstorfer, 1911; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (2): 10, TL: Thailand
Kerana sumata Fruhstorfer, 1911; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (2): 10, TL: Nias
Kerana savara Fruhstorfer, 1911; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (2): 10, TL: Borneo
Ancistroides nigrita othonias, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Ancistroides othonias ;

1288x946 (~333Kb) underside male Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a primary forest in the upper Bang Pae valley. 27th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Ancistroides armatus (Druce, 1873)

Sumatra, Malaya, Borneo, Burma. See [About maps] Astictopterus armatus Druce, 1873; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1873 (2) : 359, pl. 33, f. 7, TL: Borneo
Ancistroides armatus armatus, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Ancistroides armatus ; [BOW: pl. 185, f. 1]

A. a. armatus

S.Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Batoe, Sipora Red Demon
Ancistroides armatus armatus ; [BMP: 357, pl. 55, f. 8]

Ancistroides gemmifer (Butler, 1879)

Malaya, Sumatra. See [About maps] Astictopterus gemmifer Butler, 1879; Trans. linn. Soc. Lond. (2) 1 (8) : 555, TL: Malaysia
Ancistroides gemmifer gemmifer, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Ancistroides gemmifer ; [BOW: pl. 185, f. 2]

A. g. gemmifer

S.Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Tioman, Sumatra, Batoe, Natuna Ancistroides gemmifer gemmifer ; [BMP: 357, pl. 54, f. 42]

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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.

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[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/

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM

Some related literature:

Butler, 1874

Descriptions of some new species and a new genus of diurnal Lepidoptera in the collection of Herbert Druce Esq. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4) : 423-436, pl. 6

Butler, 1879

The butterflies of Malacca Trans. linn. Soc. Lond. (2) 1 (8) : 533-568, pl. 68-69

Distant, 1886

Rhopalocera Malayana: a Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Rhopalocera Malayana : 1-481, pl. 1-27,27A,27B,28-44

Druce, 1873

A list of the Collections of diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. Lowe in Borneo, with Descriptions of new Species Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1873 (2) : 337-361, pl. 32-33

Fruhstorfer, 1911

Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25 (2): 9-24 (1 February), (3): 25-40 (1 March), (4): 41-56 (1 April), (5): 57-72 (1 May), (6): 73-79, pl. 1 (1 June)

Hewitson, 1878

Descriptions of twenty new Species of Hesperidae from his own Collection Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 1 (4) : 340-348

Latreille, [1824]

Encylopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes in Godart, Ency. méth. 9 (2): 329-828

Moore, [1866]

On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3) : 755-823, pl. 41-43

Snellen, [1880]

Natuurlijke Historie. Achtse afdeeling. Lepidoptera door P. C. T. Snellen, met eene inleiding door Joh. F. Snelleman. Midden-Sumatra Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8) : 1-84, pl. 1-2 (?1880, ?1884, [1886]), : 85-92, pl. 3-5 ([1892])

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

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