Notocrypta feisthamelii

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| name = Spotted demon

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| taxon = Notocrypta feisthamelii

| authority = (Boisduval, 1832)Boisduval, 1832 Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandément de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 1: 1-267, pl. 1-5

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Notocrypta feisthamelii, the spotted demon, is an Indomalayan butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.Vane-Wright, R. I., & R. de. Jong. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandlingen 343: 1-267. The name honours the French entomologist Joachim François Philibert Feisthamel.

Image:Notocrypta feisthamelii alysos larvae.JPG

The named subspecies are Seitz, A. ed. 1927 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 TafelnFruhstorfer, 1911 Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 25Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/lepindex/ [accessed 2 November 2018]

  • N. f. rectifasciata Leech West China
  • N. f. alysos (Moore, [1866]) Himalaya to Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Langkawi, Malaysia, Yunnan
  • N. f. celebensis (Staudinger, 1889) Celebes
  • N. f. avattana Fruhstorfer, 1911 Java
  • N. f. samyutta Fruhstorfer, 1911 Lombok
  • N. f. alinkara Fruhstorfer, 1911 Philippines (Mindanao)
  • N. f. padhana Fruhstorfer, 1911 Batjan

The larva feeds on Costus, Maranta, Musa, Amomum, Curcuma, Elettaria, Hedychium, Zingiber.

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Category:Butterflies of Asia

Category:Butterflies of Indochina

Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval

Category:Butterflies described in 1832

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