The Biogeography of the Butterfly Fauna of Vietnam With a Focus on the Endemic Species (Lepidoptera)

A New Species of the Graphium (Pazala) mandarinus Group from Central Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)

“…Monastyrskii & Devyatkin (2015) had already collated records of Graphium mandarinus (Oberthür, 1879) from N. Vietnam (Lao Cai and Ha Giang Provinces) and C. Vietnam (Kon Tum Province). Based on our previous work (Hu et al, 2018) (Monastyrskii & Holloway 2013). For Pazala, a complex group, the species/ subspecies richness, geographic distribution and endemism in this area would be intriguing topics to study further.…”

Review of the Mimela species of the Dalat Plateau in southern Vietnam (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae).

“…Only one species from lower altitudes around 750-900 m is related to the Mimela fauna of Sundaland. Comparable biogeographical relations were also found in the butterfly fauna of Dalat (Monastyrskii, 2010;Monastyrskii and Holloway, 2013), however, Sundanian connections were more present in Rhopalocera. A half of 24 endemic Rhopaloceran species (50 %) of the Dalat plateau have Sundanian affinities (Monastyrskii, 2010 : Table 3) instead of 1 of 8 endemic Mimela species (12.5 %).…”

“…A half of 24 endemic Rhopaloceran species (50 %) of the Dalat plateau have Sundanian affinities (Monastyrskii, 2010 : Table 3) instead of 1 of 8 endemic Mimela species (12.5 %). The amalgamation of Sino-Himalayan and Sundanian elements in the Dalat Plateau may be explained by the north-south route of mountains in Vietnam having allowed the former to migrate south in cooler climate periods and the persistence of Sundanian humid forests in the maritime climate of the south of Vietnam during drier climate, providing a refuge for Sundanian elements (Monastyrskii and Holloway, 2013). However, according to our unpublished data Sundanian elements also of other genera aside from Mimela are underrepresented in the Dalat region even in lower altitudes (100-1000 m asl).…”

Phylogeography of the Oriental dobsonfly, Neoneuromus ignobilis Navás, suggests Pleistocene allopatric isolation and glacial dispersal shaping its wide distribution

“…The Annamite range is a principal mountain range of Indochina with a tropical monsoon climate and is home to a remarkably diverse and endemic biota (Groves & Schaller, 2000;Herrmann et al, 2002). Although there are few biogeographic studies on animals and plants from Indochina, previous works on spiny frogs and butterflies discovered that a series of geographic isolations were the consequence of the uplifting of the Annamite range following the collision of the Indian with the Asian continental plate and that this might account for the allopatric separation of related genera or species (Che et al, 2010;Monastyrskii & Holloway, 2013). Our results also indicate that the Annamite range, especially its southern area, is a likely location to have promoted population differentiation within a species by geographic isolation.…”