Amathusia phidippus phidippus

Kunte, Krushnamegh & Basu, Dipendra Nath, 2024, Two new taxa of brush-footed butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, southern India, Zootaxa 5543 (3), pp. 343-367 : 345

9. Amathusia phidippus phidippus :

This includes the following synonyms ( Inayoshi 2023), whose collections in NHMUK were also inspected: (a) Amathusia phidippus adustatus Fruhstorfer, 1904 , (b) Amathusia phidippus chersias Fruhstorfer, 1911 , (c) Amathusia phidippus eutropius Fruhstorfer, 1911 , (d) Amathusia gunneryi Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936 , and (e) Amathusia phidippus majada Fruhstorfer, 1916 .

♂: BMNH # 141395 (Holotype of adustatus. Nawngchik, Bansai Kau, Malaysia. 1901. Fig. 3 ), NHMUK010244505 (Bangkok, Thailand. 1901. This has a type label attached for adustatus, in error), BMNH(E) #806352 (Holotype of chersias. Location not specified but assumed to be Malacca, Malaysia. Fig. 3 ), BMNH # 141445 (Holotype of gunneryi . Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia. 1930. Fig. 3 ), NHMUK010244885 (Holotype of majada. Java. Fig. 3–4 ), BMNH(E) #984660 (Java. 1921), BMNH(E) #984642 (Java, Indonesia. 1898), BMNH(E) #984594 (Sumatra, Indonesia), BMNH(E) #984573 ( Singapore?), BMNH(E) #984574 (Java, Indonesia. 1898. Fig. 3 ), NHMUK010244361 ( Vietnam), NHMUK010244151 (“Lagi Annam ”. 1921), NHMUK010244540 (Java. 1895). ♀: BMNH # 141393 (Bangkok, Thailand. 1901. This is a presumed, but unconfirmed, type of adustatus based on a red label attached), BMNH(E) #806353 (Allotype of chersias. Malacca, Malaysia. Fig. 3 ), BMNH # 141442 (Allotype of gunneryi . Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia. 1930. Fig. 3 ), NHMUK010244706 (Allotype of majada. Java. Fig. 3 ), NHMUK010244332 (Java. 1898), NHMUK010244426 (Bangkok, Thailand. 1914), NHMUK010244420 (Java. 1898), BMNH(E) #984479 (Mergui, Myanmar. Fig. 3–4 ), BMNH(E) #984637 (Perak, Malaysia), BMNH(E) #984619 (Java, Indonesia. 1912), BMNH(E) #984629 (Marang, Malaysia). All specimens in NHMUK.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Comparison of Amathusia travancorica sp. nov. with other similar Amathusia (see Materials and Methods for specimen details). A millimetre scale is at the bottom. Photographs: Krushnamegh Kunte and Gaurav Agavekar.