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at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies family.
Distribution
The banded duffer ranges from Manipur
[de Nicéville, 1898; ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 12 (1): 137 (Manipur)] in
India
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across to the northern part of
Myanmar
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,
the
Shan States
The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called ''muang'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India.
The term "Shan States" was firs ...
, northern
Thailand
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to northern
Vietnam
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.
Status
In 1932,
William Harry Evans
Brigadier William Harry Evans Order of the Star of India, CSI Order of the Indian Empire, CIE Distinguished Service Order, DSO (born 22 July 1876 in Shillong – died 13 November 1956, Church Whitfield ) was a lepidopterist and British Army of ...
reported that the butterfly was very rare in its
South Asia
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n range.
See also
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List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
*
List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself forms part of the co ...
*
List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
Danainae (26 spp)
See List of butterflies of India (Danainae).
Morphi ...
Cited references
References
* de Nicéville, Lionel (1898) ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 12 (1): 137.
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Amathusiini
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
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