Gurelca montana Rothschild & Jordan, 1915, Novit. zool. 22: 289. Type locality: [China,] Tibet [probably western Yunnan/Sichuan].
Wingspan: 44mm.
According to Mell (1922b), this species is fairly common between July and October at 2000-2400 feet altitude on grassy slopes.
July to October
OVUM:
LARVA: According to Bell & Scott (1937), in the final instar horn of medium length, slightly up-curved, tip broadly bifid.
Head green with a white stripe separating face from cheek. Body green with a whitish subdorsal stripe from segment 2 to base of horn and thence on to 13, enclosing a rust-brown dorsal patch behind horn. There are pale oblique lateral stripes, the angles formed by the junction of the oblique stripes with the subdorsal stripe filled in with rusty-red, and the subdorsal stripe edged above with rusty-red near these junctions. Horn slate-colour with a pale ring beyond the middle. True legs reddish venter rust-brown on 2 to 4. Spiracles black with a white, dumbbell-shaped central slit.
PUPA:
Larval hostplants. In India on Paederia tomentosa (Rubiaceae) (Bell & Scott, 1937).
China: Hebei (Xuanhua); Yunnan (Yanmen).
Endemic to central/southwestern China.
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