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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THAILAND
Based on Yunosuke KIMURA Collection
Vol.1 Hesperiidae, Papilienidae and Pieridae
Authors : Yunosuke KIMURA, Toshiaki AOKI, Shuhei YAMAGUCHl, Yoshinobu UEMURA and Tamamitsu SAITO
Appearance of the book : Each Paper Size: A4 and pages: 224pp)
Illustration of each specimens is all colours. The inhabitat and distribution charts are inserted. All description are written by both Japanese and English.
Price: JPY8,400 + EMS postage+packing
The explanation of 1,200 species of Thai buttepflies entipely, with the three Volumes of books.
This is the first Volume, including families, Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae.
During 30 years attracted by Thai butterflies, one of author Y. Kimura investigated at the various districts of all countries of Thailand and collected by himself 1,100 species of the butterflies in respective location in Thailand. The book has been compiled so that all data have been sorted out and arranged marvelous plenty good enough collecting records. Today the first Volume among the 3 Volumes has been published by the begining on the sales.
The Contents of this book
Comprising the entire capturing records the butterflies in Thailand on the literatures viz. the explanation of entire Thai butterflies consisting of l,200 species and inserting plot chart of the distribution of all butterflies. The publication and illustration of the valuable specimens captured by the author Y. Kimura himself.
Now a day, the many mountains and forests in the wide district of South-East Asia are deforested and a lot of the entomologist are entertaining a serious apprehensions of an extinction of the creatures living in South-East Asia, so this book is an important material which could not be neglected for study and researches of the butterflies inhabiting in South-East Asia. The synonym list that inserted in the last pages are made with the most accurate attention by the careful examination of the original literatures as exact as possible and made correction of the errors written and expressed in the description and illustration of the respective literatures.
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Preface 3
Introduction 8
Habitat and Scence 14
Hesperiidae 20
Coeliadinae 20
Pyrginae 30
Hesperiinae 51
Papilionaidae 110
Parnassiinae 110
Papilioninae 110
Pieridae 141
Coliadinae 151
A synonymic List of the Butterflies of Thailand 170
Index 212
Japanese Index 216
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Catalogue of BIRDWING Butterflies Revised Edition
Author: OHYA, Takashi
Issued: July. 2009
A4 size, 288pp.
Price: JPY9,800( + EMS postage+packing)
text: English
Hard cover,
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
1.This book on the Birdwing Butterflies (Genus Ornithoptera, Genus Trogonoptera and Genus Troides) is made up of the following seven parts.
Part 1: Classification of Birdwing Butterflies
Part 2: Original descriptions of Birdwing Butterflies
Part 3: Alphabetic list of taxonomic names and their original descriptions
Part 4: Index to original genera, subgenera
Part 5: Index to authors
Part 6: Index to journals, serials and books
Part 7: Distribution list of Birdwing Butterflies
2.All original descriptions described for 250 years from 1758 (the year that Linnaeus first named to Birdwing Butterflies) to 2008 were investigated.
3.The mark* before the taxon in Parts 1 and 4 indicates the form named after its species or subspecies.
4.Abbreviations of the titles of journals and serials are quoted from “The World List of Scientific Periodicals” (1964) (Butterworths, London), but are modified in some limited cases.
5.Publications with the mark★ in Parts 5 and 6 indicate books, while those without the marks show journals and serials.
6.The type locality in Part 7 have been re6erred to the original description. The names of habitats in the distribution area are fundamentally arranged in order from west to east and from north to south. The mark* indicates the geographical name of which location could not indicated.
PREFACE FOR THE REVISED EDITION
During 8 years since the first edition was issued, many new taxa and new habitats of Birdwings were reported. The year 2008 is corresponds to the 250th anniversary counting from the memorial year which LINNAEUS (1758) gave the name to Birdwings firstly. What all of the original of Birdwings is analyzed may be enlightening for many researchers in case of their further studies in future on account of being able to learn about the whole of Birdwings, so the editor have determined to bring out the revised edition. I should be honor if my aim would be able to be attained by this book.
On the occasion of revising this book, I took care on the following points.
1. In Part 1, on account of elimination of the unavailable taxonomic names and addition of newly described 129 taxa, the new classification list is made up of 648 taxa.
2. In Part 2, all the original descriptions are classified into every Subgenus. In a case of original description by Japanese author, not only Japanese title of the bulletin but also English title is written side by side.
3. In Part 3, the title of bulletin is indicated in both Japanese and English in a case of the Japanese author.
4. In Parts 4, 5 and 6, the method of arrangement applies correspondingly to the first edition, but the print of this revised edition may be easier to read than that of the first edition due to the use of larger printing type. Bold print indicates it to be a available taxon.
5.In Part 7, 334 locations have been recorded as the new habitats, i. e. these newly found locations relative to Genera Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides are 120, 28 and 186 places, respectively.
April 2009
Takashi OHYA
CONTENTS
PREFACE i
INTRODUCTORY NOTES vii
PART 1: Classification of Birdwing Butterflies 1
PART 2: Original Descriptions of Birdwing Butterflies 31
PART 3: Alphabetic List of Taxonomic Names and their Original Descriptions 75
PART 4: Index to Original Genera, Subgenera 129
PART 5: Index to Authors 159
PART 6: Index to Joumals, Serials and Books 207
PART 7: Distribution List of Birdwing Butterflies 251
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Catalogue of BIRDWING Butterflies
Author: OHYA, Takashi
Issued: Dec. 2001
B5 size, 297pp.
Price: out of print
text:English
Hard cover,
This is comprehensive catalogue of birdwing butterflies, and very convenient for all Entomologists and collectors in this field.
PREFACE
Birdwing Butterflies, distributed in the lndo-Australian Region centering around New Guinea and South East Asia, are one of the most popular butterflies for their magnificence and beauty.
Historically, as the first memoir of the Birdwings, the Priam's Birdwing (O. priamus) from Ambon Island, Indonesia was made public in 1719, about 300 years ago.Then, in 1758 LINNAEUS proposed the binominal nomenclature as a naming method for animals and plants in “SYSTEMA NATURAE” (ed. X). He gave names to almost all known animals and plants in this book, which have been used as scientific names in the world. Regarding Birdwings, only two species were known and given names by him at that times: Papilio Eques Trojanus Priamus and Papilio Eques Achivus Helena respectively. During the last 242 years since LINNAEUS, numerous papers on Birdwing Butterflies have been published, containing approximately 400 original descriptions have been reported from every part of the world.
In describing a scientific report or a dissertation, we have often come across to the necessity to refer to the related original descriptions. Especially in the case of describing new taxa, it would be indispensable to go through them. Such being the case, it is necessary for us to know the author's names and the titles and the date of issue of related articles. But, I regret to say that it is not so easy to obtain such information including a copy of an old bulletin, much less an old rare book in our country.
Taking the opportunity of entering new century, this book was planned to issue with such intension as to solve the problems. Reviewing many related bibliographies being collected for “BIRDWING BUTTERFLIES” (Kodansha, 1983) and the original descriptions that have been reported afterwards, this book are arranged in a seven-part catalogue (see INTRODUCTORY NOTES). Such arrangement will be make it easy to find out anything a reader needs, e. g. the author's name, the title of the bulletin, taxonomic name and so on. I intended to do the best of my ability that every item must be exact by looking over the original descriptions as thoroughly as possible. There may be, however, some room for improvement. I should be honored if this book is useful when they write a new report on Birdwings.
Finally, I acknowledge my deep gratitude to Mr. Kikumaro OKANO, who have obligingly and quickly offered me the copies of the book I need out of his great library. Without his collaboration, this book would not have been published. And I also wish to thank Messrs. Shinji NAGAI and Gilles DESLISLE, good friends of mine, for their information concerning full names of some authors.
I here mention that Part 7 (Distribution List) is a revised list of distribution we made when I helped Mr. Hirotaka MATSUKA when he wrote “NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDWING BUTTERFLIES.”
May 2001
Takashi OHYA
CONTENTS
Part1：Classification
Part2：Original descriptions
Part3：Index to original genera
Part4：Alphabetic list of taxonomic names
Part5：Index to journals, serials and books
Part6：Index to authors
Part7：Distribution list
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Natural History of Birdwing Butterflies
Author : Hirotaka Matsuka
Published : 4th, June, 2001
Publisher : Matsuka Printing Co.
Size : 310×235×35mm
Pages : 367 pages, mostly colored
Our special price : JPY35,700 + EMS postage+packing
This is just an amazing and fantastic picture book for genus Ornithoptera.
Mr. Matsuka is one of the top photographer in Japan, and his greatest
photos are printed by Japanese advanced printing technology. All text, tytles
and comments are in both Japanese and English. Because of personal
publishment, the number is limited. If you need, now is the time to buy.
The value is more than the price. Expensive or cheap ? You decide...
Following explanation is reprinted from the list of Entomological Livestock Group.
Natural History of Birdwing Butterflies. by Hirotaka Matsuka. - The Birdwings,
the largest butterflies in the world (Ornithoptera. Trogonoptera, and Troides). - All photographed
in tropical rainforest!! - Photos in life of all 32 species, photos of adult specimens of all 159 subspecies
photos of early stages of 31 species, and photos of 51 species of foodplants. - 1105 colour photos
in total. - Extra-wide A4 size (302 mm x 227 mm) ~ 368 pages (including 209 pages of colour
plates) - Hardcover ~ Dual full texts in English and Japanese. Field photos. 119 pages of field
photographs - They are achieved by the author's thorough field trips covering all habitats. - All
vividly picture the butterflies in life with the author's outstanding skill as an insect photographer. - The
author's short travelogue attached to each field photo page brings the reader to the remotest on the
earth, even without any prior knowledge of the butterfly or its habitat. Early stages. 14 pages
comprising 195 photos - The closely related species are arranged for easy comparison. - The egg,
larva (dorsal aspect, lateral aspects, and osmeterium), and pupa (dorsal and lateral aspects) are shown
for each species. - The generic differences are given; in particular, the pupal morphology, hitherto
unknown, is described in detail. - All birdwing species are included with the sole exception of Troides
riedeli. Specimen photos. 44 pages, comprising 442 specimens - All 159 subspecies known at present.
both male and female and both upperside and underside, are shown. including Ornithoptera allottei from
all the four islands and some known aberrant forms. - The closely related species and subspecies are
easily checked with the distribution maps and compansons of wing colour and patterns. - The distribution
maps are designed chromatically to show altitudinal contours by 500m. The taxonomic classiflcation follows
Dr. Takashi Ohya's criteria. This book is unique and outstanding. The birdwings butterflies occur from India
to Australia. After 20 years of wandering in the field in search of them, the author, who now identifies himself
as a collector of all tropical dis-eases, has finally achieved in photographing all species in life for the first time
in history. With the marvellous colour plates, this is an "uncomparable book" of the birdwing butterflies, making
any species or subspecies easily distinguished from their allies. Also the text is full of information on this group
of butterflies: e.g. vertically differentiated distribution, size of eggs, length/width ratio of pupae, various ecological
and morphological comparisons, as well as foodplant - butterfly relationships. The new information contained in
this book makes it a unique contribution to science. In particular, the morphologically clear grouping of pupae,
hitherto unachieved. Five or six species of the foodplants collected by the author will be described as new species
by Dr. Michael Parsons, author of The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea, who also greatly contributed to
polishing the English text. As to their foodplants, the aristolochiaceous, this book provides the greatest number
of colour photos, making their identification easy, unrivaled with any book of plants ever published. Foodplant
aristolochiaceous. 34 pages comprising 214 photos - Flowers. fluits. and leaves are shown for 51 species. - It is
fully noted and described that there are thiec basic forms among the Asian aristolochiaceous. - Each of the 51
species depicted with the photos is described in text. - Problems of the taxonomic confusion between some
Japanese, Taiwanese and Philippines species are pointed out. - A list of all known aristolochiaceous (Aristolochia,
Pararistolochia, and Thottea) prepared by Mr. OHNO Yoshiaki is included. - Plant specimens were identifled
by Dr. Michael Parsons at the University of Florida. Geographic maps. 7 pages + indices, 11 pages - They list
1700 localities of the birdwing butterflies and their foodplant aristolochiaceous. - Appended with the indices of
geographic names, this section, handy and comprehensive, provides an indispensable atlas to all the students of
the butterflies occurring in the Asian tropics.
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Sakai, Inaoka, Watanabe, Aoki & Yamaguchi, 2002. The Parnassius Butterflies
128color plates + 288text pages
Price: JPY58,800(+EMS postage +packing)
text: Japanese
out of print. Our stock is only 4copies.
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Igarashi & Fukuda, 1996. The life histories of Asian Butterflies. Vol. 1
550pp.
price:JPY44,100(+EMS postage+packing)
Text: Japanese and English
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Igarashi & Fukuda, 2000. The life histories of Asian Butterflies. Vol. 2
742pp.
price:JPY50,400(+EMS postage+packing)
Text: Japanese and English
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Osada, Uemura & Uehara, 1999. Butterflies of Laos.
A4, 239pp.
Price: JPY18,900(+EMS postage+packing)
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Yagishita, Nakano & Morita, 1993. An illustrated list of the Genus Delias of the World.
Plates: 409pp.(full color). JPY16,800(+EMS postage+packing)
Text: 384pp. JPY2,100(+EMS postage+packing)
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Butterflies of theSouth East Asian Islands
This is Japanese very famous and popular iconographic series of butterflies
of the Sounth-east Asian Islands. The series contain 5 volumes covered most
major groupe of butterflies (in Japanese), and 2 of them were translated into
English (following 2 tytles).
Vol.I. Papilionidae
Author: Etsuzo Tsukada & Yasusuke Nishiyama
Price: JPY26,250(+EMS postage+packing)
457pp.(166 color plates),
Size: 240mm×310mm×40mm
English eddition published: July 1982
In English.
Covered all Papilionidae such as Troides, Ornithoptera, Papilio,
Graphium etc. Because of so colorful genus, because of advanced
high technilogy of Japanese printings, this picture book is so beautiful
and worth to have one.
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Vol.II. Pieridae and Danaidae
Author: Osamu Yata & Kazuhiko Morishita
Price:JPY36,750(+EMS postage+packing)
623pp.(162 color plates),
Size: 240mm×310mm×54mm
English eddition published: May 1985
In English.
This is also very beautiful color books, and every Pieridae and Danaidae
collector must have one. Even not a Lepidopterist, it is noce to look at, so
beautiful and amazing color varietion.
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Vol.III. Satyridae, Amathusiidae and Libytheidae
Japanese edition only. Only available used book.
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Vol.IV. Nymphalidae Part 1
Japanese edition only. Only available used book.
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Vol.V. Nymphalidae Part 2
Etsuzo Tsukada, 1991.
Price: JPY71,400(+EMS postage+packing)
576pp.(238color plates)
Size: 240mm×310mm×50mm
Japanese edition only.
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Memoirs of the Tsukada Collection
(Descriptions of South East Asian butterflies)
No.4
Aug. 31, 1982
B5 size, 64pp.
Price : JPY2,000.
No.5
April 30, 1987
B5 size, 80pp.
Price : JPY2,500.
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Japanese Butterflies and their relatives in the World Vol.1
Fujioka, Tsukiyama & Chiba 1997.
26.5X37cm, 152color plates＋text336pp.＋data164pp.
Price:JPY79,800(+EMS postage+packing)
text: Japanese & English
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Buttreflies in the Four Seasins of Japan
Ohya, A., 2000.
A4, 232pp. Price:JPY20,790(+EMS postage+packing)
full color
text: Japanese
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IWASE No.1〜3
(Descriptions of butterflies and some Lucanids)
No.1
Issue: Aug. 31, 1983
B5 size, 72pp.(10 color plates)
Price : JPY2,000 (postage excluded)
Butterflies of Peleng Island with description of a new ssp. of
Hebomoia leucippe from Peleng.
