RHAGASTIS GLORIOSA (Butler, 1875)

TAXONOMY

Pergesa gloriosa Butler, 1875, Proc. zool. soc. Lond. 1875: 246. Type locality: [India, West Bengal,] Darjiling [Darling].

Synonyms. Rhagastis yunnanaria Chu & Wang, 1980, Acta zootaxon. sin. 5: 422. Type locality: China, Yunnan, Jinping.

ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 82--92mm.

ADULT BIOLOGY

FLIGHT-TIME

China: v (Songzhishanding); 14.v (Jinping); 24-26.v (Xiaguan); 12.vi (Xima).

EARLY STAGES

OVUM: Unknown.

LARVA: Unknown.

PUPA: Unknown.

Larval hostplants. Unknown.

PARASITOIDS

Unknown.

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Yunnan (Xiaguan, 2020m; Jinping, 1700m; Changning Co., Songzhishanding, 2800m; nr. Yingjiang, Xima, 2080m); south Xizang/Tibet (Nyingchi; Zhangmu, 2200m).

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Occurs along the southern slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal (Haruta, 1992), Xizang/Tibet, Bhutan, northeastern India and northern Burma/Myanmar, east to central Yunnan, China. Also recorded from the extreme northwest of Thailand (Inoue, Kennett & Kitching, [1996] and northern Vietnam.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION

Holarctic; eastern Palaearctic region. Pleistocene refuge: Polycentric -- Sinotibetan and Yunnan refugia.