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Limenitis rileyi Tytler, 1940 – Tiger-mimic Admiral
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Limenitis rileyi rileyi – Myanmarese Tiger-mimic Admiral
L. rileyi rileyi Tytler, 1940: Hthawgaw, North East Myanmar.
L. rileyi ngoclinensis Monastyrskii, Devyatkin & Hong, 2000: Central Vietnam.
The Indian record is a single male specimen in India collected on the 19 July 1987 near Anini, Upper Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh. The Upper Dibang Valley borders the SE Tibetan records and it also likely it maybe found in Lohit and Anjaw districts of Arunachal Pradesh as these districts lie between the SE Tibetan and NE Myanmar records. In 1987 the specimen was provisionly identified as Hestina oberthuri Leech (a synonym for Limenitis mimica Poujade), but it was clear it was not a good match and so was left unidentifed and not reported. It was not until 2012 thanks to Dr David Lees NHM(B) that the specimen was identified as L. rileyi.
Tytler H.C. 1940. Notes on some new and interesting butterflies chiefly from Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 42: 109–123.
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Roy, P. 2019. Limenitis rileyi Tytler, 1940 – Tiger-mimic Admiral. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 2.72. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/2097/Limenitis-rileyi
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