Notocrypta feisthamelii

Notocrypta feisthamelii, the spotted demon, is an Indomalayan butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.[2] The name honours the French entomologist Joachim François Philibert Feisthamel.

Larvae

Spotted demon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Notocrypta
Species:
N. feisthamelii
Binomial name
Notocrypta feisthamelii
(Boisduval, 1832)[1]


The named subspecies are [3] [4] [5]

  • N. f. rectifasciata Leech West China
  • N. f. alysos (Moore, [1866]) Himalaya to Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Langkawi, Malaysia, Yunnan
  • N. f. celebensis (Staudinger, 1889) Celebes
  • N. f. avattana Fruhstorfer, 1911 Java
  • N. f. samyutta Fruhstorfer, 1911 Lombok
  • N. f. alinkara Fruhstorfer, 1911 Philippines (Mindanao)
  • N. f. padhana Fruhstorfer, 1911 Batjan

The larva feeds on Costus, Maranta, Musa, Amomum, Curcuma, Elettaria, Hedychium, Zingiber.

References
  1. Boisduval, 1832 Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandément de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 1 : 1-267, pl. 1-5
  2. Vane-Wright, R. I., & R. de. Jong. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandlingen 343: 1-267.
  3. Seitz, A. ed. 1927 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
  4. Fruhstorfer, 1911 Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen Dt. ent. Z. Iris 25
  5. Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/lepindex/ [accessed 2 November 2018]


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