Bassarona teuta
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The Banded Marquis Bassarona teuta is a species of nymphalid
butterfly found in the Himalayas
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, Myanmar
, Malaya
, Thailand
, Pulau, Tioman, Langkawi
, Andamans, Java
, Sumatra
, Borneo
, Batu Islands
, Nias
, Flores
, Natuna Islands
, Palawan
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Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5,000 species of butterflies which are distributed throughout most of the world. These are usually medium sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called...
butterfly found in the Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
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Range
AssamAssam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
, Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, Malaya
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Pulau, Tioman, Langkawi
Langkawi
Langkawi, officially known as Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah is an archipelago of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. The islands are a part of the state of Kedah, which is adjacent to the Thai border...
, Andamans, Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
, Sumatra
Sumatra
Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
, Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
, Batu Islands
Batu Islands
The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala. There are forty-eight smaller islands, of which less than half are...
, Nias
Nias
Nīas is an island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago, containing the Hinako archipelago....
, Flores
Flores
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population was 1.831.000 in the 2010 census and the largest town is Maumere. Flores is Portuguese for "flowers".Flores is located east of Sumbawa...
, Natuna Islands
Natuna Islands
The Natuna Islands archipelago is located in the Natuna Sea in the larger Tudjuh Archipelago, off the northwest coast of Borneo. The islands are administratively part of the Riau Islands province of Indonesia and are the northernmost non-disputed island group of Indonesia...
, Palawan
Palawan
Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region or Region 4. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction. The islands of Palawan stretch from Mindoro in the northeast to Borneo in the...
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Subspecies
- Bassarona teuta teuta (Assam to Thailand)
- Bassarona teuta goodrichi (Distant, 1886) (southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Pulau Tioman)
- Bassarona teuta affinis Lathy, 1900 (Siam)
- Bassarona teuta rayana (Morishita, 1968) (Langkawi)
- Bassarona teuta tiomanica Eliot, 1978 (Pulau Tioman)
- Bassarona teuta teutoides (Moore, 1877) (Andamans)
- Bassarona teuta gupta (de Nicéville, 1886) (southern Burma)
- Bassarona teuta eurus (de Nicéville, 1894) (Sumatra)
- Bassarona teuta yapana Fruhstorfer (Batu Island)
- Bassarona teuta externa (de Nicéville, 1894) (Nias)
- Bassarona teuta eion (de Nicéville, 1894) (Java)
- Bassarona teuta veyana Fruhstorfer (Flores)
- Bassarona teuta bellata (Druce, 1873) (Borneo)
- Bassarona teuta ira (Moore, 1896) (Burma)
- Bassarona teuta salpona (Fruhstorfer, 1909) (Natuna Island)
- Bassarona teuta eson (de Nicéville, 1894) (Palawan)