POLYPTYCHUS TRILINEATUS TRILINEATUS Moore, 1888

Female Polyptychus trilineatus trilineatus. Photo: © BMNH Male Polyptychus trilineatus trilineatus. Photo: © BMNH Male Polyptychus trilineatus trilineatus. Photo: © BMNH Fresh female Polyptychus trilineatus trilineatus, Motuo, Xizang/Tibet, China, 23.viii.2012. Photo: © Pascal Regnier.

TAXONOMY

Polyptychus trilineatus Moore, 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1888: 390. Type locality: [India, Himachal Pradesh,] Dharmsala.


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 74--112mm.


ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME

China: 23.viii.2012 (Xizang/Tibet).


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA: Full-fed 76--80mm.

PUPA: 28--30mm.

Larval hostplants. Ehretia (Boraginaceae) (Inoue, Kennett & Kitching, [1996] 1997).


PARASITOIDS


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Xizang/Tibet (Motuo, near Indian border); Hainan (Wanling).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Northern India, Nepal, Burma/Myanmar, southern China (Xizang/Tibet, Hainan), Thailand and Vietnam.


Global distribution of Polyptychus trilineatus trilineatus. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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