Zeltus

Zeltus de Nicéville, 1890

Zeltus de Nicéville, 1890; Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3: 19, 399; TS: Papilio etolus Fabricius

Zeltus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Zeltus (Hypolycaenina); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 438

Zeltus amasa (Hewitson, 1865)

-. See [maps]

Hypolycaena amasa Hewitson, 1865; Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (2): 51; TL: "India"

Zeltus amasa; [EBW]; [BOW]: pl. 182, f. 17; [MRS], 649; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

512x341 (~31Kb) ♂ upperside India: Guwahati, 17.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

512x341 (~35Kb) ♂ underside India: Guwahati, 17.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

Z. a. amasa W.Ghats, Sikkim - Assam - Burma, N.Thailand, S.Yunnan Fluffy Tit

Papilio etolus Fabricius, 1787; Mantissa Insectorum 2: 66 (preocc. Cramer, [1779]))

Hypolycaena etolus; Hewitson, 1865, Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (2): pl. 22, f. 19-20
Zeltus amasa amasa; [BOR], 623 (note); [iNaturalist]
Zeltus etolus gratidanus; [CoL]
Zeltus etolus; Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3): 606; Fruhstorfer, 1912, Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4): 242; [BIR], 355; [CoL]

1165x1035 (~307Kb) ♂ upperside Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, 21 km ENE of Koh Kong. 23th May 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1156x975 (~274Kb) ♂ underside Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, 21 km ENE of Koh Kong. 23th May 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1033x1034 (~226Kb) underside Cambodia, Ratanakiri Province, 'Orolestes pool' 7 km NEE of Ban Lung, 7th June 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
916x961 (~291Kb) ♀ upperside Cambodia, Ratanakiri Province, 'Orolestes pool' 7 km NEE of Ban Lung, 7th June 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	962x893 (~237Kb) ♀ upperside Cambodia, Ratanakiri Province, 'Orolestes pool' 7 km NEE of Ban Lung, 7th June 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Z. a. maximinianus Fruhstorfer, 1912 S.Thailand, Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya Fluffy Tit

Zeltus etolus maximinianus Fruhstorfer, 1912; Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4): 242

Zeltus amasa maximinianus; [BMP]: 321, pl. 49, f. 33-35; [BOR], 623; [iNaturalist]
Zeltus etolus maximinianus; [CoL]

1160x874 (~163Kb) underside Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

650x470 (~76Kb) upperside Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

961x731 (~63Kb) Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Z. a. gratidianus Fruhstorfer, 1912 Nias

Zeltus etolus gratidianus Fruhstorfer, 1912; Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4): 242; TL: Nias

Zeltus amasa gratidianus; [BOR], 623 (note)

Z. a. pompaedius Fruhstorfer, 1912 Java

Zeltus etolus pompädius [= pompaedius] Fruhstorfer, 1912; Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4): 242; TL: Java; Bali

Zeltus amasa pompaedius; [BOR], 623 (note)
Zeltus etolus pompaedius; [CoL]

Z. a. censorinus Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sumbawa

Zeltus etolus censorinus Fruhstorfer, 1912; Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4): 242; TL: Sumbawa

Zeltus amasa censorinus; [BOR], 623 (note); [iNaturalist]
Zeltus etolus censorinus; [CoL]

Z. a. miyatakei Hayashi, 1976 Palawan

Zeltus amasa miyatakei Hayashi, 1976; Tyô to Ga 27 (1): 14, f. 19-22; TL: Taot-Daram, Palawam

Hypolycaena amasa miyatakei;

Z. a. masaya Takanami, 1984²

Hypolycaena amasa masaya Takanami, 1984²

Hypolycaena amasa masaya;
Zeltus amasa masaya; [iNaturalist]

References:

[CiNii]
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[Kedar Tokekar]
India
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[²] This may require parentheses or not (original genus not verified)

Some related literature:

[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2 Mon. Rhop. Sinesium : 1-854
[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[BOR]; D'Abrera, 1982-1986
Butterflies of the Oriental Region I-III
Druce, 1895
A Monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3) : 556-627, pl. 31-34
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Fabricius, 1787
Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus Mantissa Insectorum 2 : 1-382
Fruhstorfer, 1912
Uebersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors Berl. ent. Zs. 56 (3/4) : 197-272, f. 1-4 (early April)
Hayashi, 1976
Descriptions of four new subspecies of lycaenid butterflies from Palawan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Tyô to Ga 27 (1) : 13-18
Hewitson, 1865
Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (1): 1-36,37*, pl. 1-16 (1863), (2): 37-76, pl. 17-30 (1865), (3): 77-114, pl. 31-46 (1867), (4): 115-136,14a-h, pl. 47-54,3a-c, (Suppl.) 1-16, pl. 1-5 (1869), (5): 137-150,151*, pl. 55-59, (Suppl.) pl. 6 (1873), (6): 151-184,185*, pl. 60-73 (1874), (7): 185-208,209*, pl. 74-83 (1877), (8): 209-228, pl. 84-85,88-92, (Suppl.) 17-47, pl. 1a-b,3a-b,4a,5a-b,7-8 (1878)
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
de Nicéville in Marshall & de Nicéville, 1890
The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, a descriptive Handbook of all the known Species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that Region, with Notices of allied Species occurring in the neighbouring Countries along the Border, with numerous Illustrations. Vol. 3 Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3 : 1-503, pl. 25-29
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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