Kaeng Krachan NP., Thailand - 26/27 January 2014

[Angiud]

[Great Mormon]

butterfly heaven!

[Painted Jezebel]

Taxon assa used to be the Sumatran ssp of A. cama.
Does this mean all the Sundanian representatives of A. cama are now A. assa.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/se-asianb...ly/assakb.html

TL Seow

Good question. I don't know, but I would imagine that that is the thought of some. I, myself, questioned to name when I saw it expecting it to be A. cama gynea, but the email has now been deleted, and I can not remember it all, apart from Sympatry came into it so A. assa had to be seperated from A. cama (in Borneo, I think).

Sorry, I can not give a proper answer. I would continue to use A. cama for Malaysian specimens as in C&P4 until a paper is published, if it has not already been so.

[Psyche]

Good question. I don't know, but I would imagine that that is the thought of some. I, myself, questioned to name when I saw it expecting it to be A. cama gynea, but the email has now been deleted, and I can not remember it all, apart from Sympatry came into it so A. assa had to be seperated from A. cama (in Borneo, I think).

Sorry, I can not give a proper answer. I would continue to use A. cama for Malaysian specimens as in C&P4 until a paper is published, if it has not already been so.

The continental forms of A. cama are quite different from the Sundanian forms so there may be ground for separation.
However, I would expect a lot of intermediates in your area.
Tsukada & Kaneko named A. assa pseudocama in 1985 from Borneo.
Eliot made no mention of any name change in his 2006 & earlier reviews (He did comment many of Tsukada's namechanges, eg Lexias bangkana. new ssp of L dirtea, & pardalis for Singapore are unjustified.)

TL Seow