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| Cameroon Highlands, Malaysia; 5/80 |
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| no data female form danisepa |
Found from N India east through S China and south through Thailand, the Malay peninsula, and western Indonesia (to Borneo). Local and not common, but widespread. Some subspecies are considered rather rare. Many different forms have been described and it is clearly ahighly variable species, with males and females mimicing various and different (!) Danaid models (a butterfly species that is distasteful to some predators). Due to variability, many so-called subspecies are nearly impossible to tell apart without accurate collecting data.
telearchus - N India, Thailand, Burma, and
Indochina
aenigma - Sumatra, the Malay Peninsual, and
Singapore
niasicus - Nias
mesades - Batu
paradoxa - Java
??? new ssp - Hainan island
telesicles - Borneo
melanostoma - Palawan