138. Notocrypta curvifascia curvifascia (The Restricted Demon)

Number: 138

Family: Hesperiidae

Sub-Family : Hesperiinae

Species: Notocrypta curvifascia curvifascia (Felder & Felder, 1862)

Common name(s): The Restricted Demon

Photography location: Tam Dao foothills (Vinh Phuc Prov.), Tam Đường District (Lai Chau Prov.)

The genus Notocrypta (the "Demons") comprises 13 species, among them 4 have been recorded in Vietnam: N. paralysos asawa, N. clavata theba, N. curvifascia curvifascia & N. feisthamelii alysos (Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2016). All are blackish brown species with an oblique white band and white spot(s) on FW.

Notocrypta curvifascia curvifascia, Tam Dao foothills (July 2016)
FW with subapical spots in spaces 6 to 8, and dots in spaces 3-5

Another specimen from Tam Dao (October 2016)

Same specimen
Note that the FW discal band not continued above the cell to the costal border (unlike N. feisthamelii)

N. curvifascia feeding on Crassocephalum rubens (Lai Chau Prov., January 2017) - more colourful than the individuals I usually see at Tam Dao

3. Notocrypta paralysos asawa (The Common Banded Demon)

Number: 3

Family: Hesperiidae

Sub-Family : Hesperiinae

Species: Notocrypta paralysos asawa Fruhstorfer, 1911

Common name(s): The Common Banded Demon

Photography location: Tam Dao foothills (Vinh Phuc Prov.)

The genus Notocrypta (the "Demons") comprises 13 species, among them 4 have been recorded in Vietnam: N. paralysos asawa, N. clavata theba, N. curvifascia curvifascia & N. feisthamelii alysos (Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2016). All are blackish brown species with an oblique white band and white spot(s) on FW.

N. paralysos is very wide-ranging species, known from India to Indonesia, and north to Japan. This is one of the Hesperidae I encounter the most in my habitual butt hunting grounds around Hanoi.

Notocrypta paralysos asawa, Tam Dao foothills (June 2016)
The white dot in space 4 of FW can be present or not

N. clavata is very similar but the band is not elbowed (right-angled indentation) on the inner margin at vein 2 as seen in N. paralysos. It is also not strongly notched on the outer margin at vein 3 and spot 4 is absent.

Another specimen from Tam Dao foothills (July 2016)