Melanocyma

Melanocyma Westwood, 1858

Melanocyma Westwood, 1858; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 4 (6): 186; TS: Thaumantis faunula Westwood
- = Faunis; Penz, 2021, Zootaxa 5067 (2): 159

Melanocyma; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Melanocyma (Amathusiini); [BMP]; [Wahlberg, 2023]

Melanocyma faunula (Westwood, [1850])

-. See [maps]

Thaumantis faunula Westwood, [1850]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 334, (2): pl. 54, f. 1
Clerome faunula Westwood, [1851]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 334 nota

Clerome (Melanocyma) faunula; Westwood, 1858, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 4 (6): 186, pl. 21, f. 2
Faunis faunula; Fruhtorfer, 1911, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9: 406; [BOW]: pl. 137, f. 19; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Melanocyma faunula kimurai; [iNaturalist]
Melanocyma faunula; [EBW]; [BOR], 494; [Wahlberg, 2023]; [iNaturalist]

597x575 (~34Kb) underside Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a sandy bed of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 30th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

M. f. faunula ?S.Burma, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Indo China

Faunis faunula faunula; Fruhtorfer, 1911, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9: 406, pl. 100 a
Melanocyma faunula faunula; [BMP]: 146, pl. 18, f. 16; [BOR], 494; [Wahlberg, 2023]; [iNaturalist] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi]

795x657 (~202Kb) ♂ upperside Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, right bank of the Thma Bang River left tributary at the bridge, 7 km SW Thma Bang village, 2nd June 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1239x952 (~371Kb) ♂ underside Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, right bank of the Thma Bang River left tributary at the bridge, 7 km SW Thma Bang village, 2nd June 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	552x591 (~132Kb) ♀ underside Cambodia, Pursat Province, Phnom Tumpor Mt., the O'Gran brook valley in tall forest, 1190 m a.s.l., 16th March 2019, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
669x725 (~156Kb) ♂ underside Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, right bank of the Thma Bang River left tributary at the bridge, 7 km SW Thma Bang village, 21th March 2015, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

M. f. faunuloides de Nicéville, 1895 N.Burma (Chin Hills)

Melanocyma faunuloides de Nicéville, 1895; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 9 (3): 259, pl. N, f. 2; TL: North Chin Hills, Upper Burma

Faunis faunula faunuloides; Fruhtorfer, 1911, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9: 406
Melanocyma faunula faunuloides; [BOR], 494; [Wahlberg, 2023]
Melanocyma faunuloides; [EBW], (name only)

References:

[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[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
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[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.

Some related literature:

[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[BOR]; D'Abrera, 1982-1986
Butterflies of the Oriental Region I-III
de Nicéville, 1895
On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 9 (3): 259-321, pl. N-Q, (4): 366-410
Westwood, [1850]; Westwood, [1851]
The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 18*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29 (15-23) (1848), (1): pl. 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Penz, 2021
Phylogeny of Amathusiini butterflies based on adult morphology (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) Zootaxa 5067 (2) : 151-186
Fruhtorfer in Seitz, 1911
Die Großschmetterlinge des Indo-australischen Faunengebietes Gross-Schmett. Erde 9 : 1-766, : 767-1197
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Westwood, 1858
On the Oriental Species of Butterflies related to the Genus Morpho Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 4 (5): 158-160 (1857), (6): 161-189

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