CRASPEDORTHA PORPHYRIA PORPHYRIA (Butler, 1876)

Female Craspedortha p. porphyria. Photo: © BMNH Male Craspedortha p. porphyria. Photo: © BMNH Male Craspedortha p. porphyria. Photo: © BMNH

TAXONOMY

Daphnusa porphyria Butler, 1876, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 9: 640. Type locality: [India, West Bengal,] Darjeeling [Darling].


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 60mm. The hindwing is brown, with a dark spot above the lobe of the anal angle.


Adult Craspedortha p. porphyria, Thailand. Photo: © Ian Kitching Adult Craspedortha p. porphyria (side view), Thailand. Photo: © Ian Kitching

ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME

China: v (Guangdong); 20.v (Yunnan); 15.vii (Sichuan).


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:


Larva of Craspedortha porphyria. Photo: Mell, 1922b

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Recorded by Chu & Wang (1980) on various (unspecified) Moraceae.


PARASITOIDS

Unknown.


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Zhejiang; Hubei (Lichuan); Sichuan (Emei Shan); Yunnan (Weiyuan Jiang, 960m); Fujian (Longqi Shan); Guangdong; Hainan.

Taiwan: Kaohsiung Hsien (Shanping).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Nepal, northeastern India, Burma/Myanmar, southern China, and south to Vietnam and central Thailand. A second subspecies, C. p. basale (Dupont), occurs in Java, Indonesia.


Global distribution of Craspedortha porphyria. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION

Holarctic; eastern Palaearctic region. Pleistocene refuge: Monocentric -- Yunnan refugium.


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