Atrophaneura dixoni (Grose-Smith, 1900)

OCCURENCE

Habitat: Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
This species inhabits both primary and secondary rainforest. Males are most commonly seen on hilltops late in the afternoon, where they defend territories from perches a few metres above the ground. Both sexes frequent flowers, usually high in the forest canopy. Adults are extremely rapid flyers. Larvae feed on the fruits and flower buds of Gardenia , Randia (Rubiaceae) and other species, where they may cause significant damage.
(IUCN 2020)

Population: This species appears very local, but is occasionally fairly common.
Range: This butterfly species is distributed widely in South East Asia, where it ranges from northern India, through Indo-China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Okinawa (Japan), peninsular Thailand/Malaysia to Sulawesi and possibly Borneo (see Taxonomic Notes). Although the species has been recorded from Thailand , Monastyrskii and Devyatkin (2003) did not include the species in their checklist of the butterflies of Viet Nam . Nonetheless, the species has a very large extent of occurrence and, as inhabitants of primary and secondary forest which is still fairly abundant across its distribution, the area of occupancy is also quite large.
(IUCN 2020)

Occurrence and observation maps

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References

• IUCN. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2020-3. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 December 2020).