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Taiping, Malaysia; 5/81 ssp perses | Chaing Do Mtn, Chaing Mai, Thailand 2000 feet July 1989 female |
Wide range from N India through S China and south through the Malay peninsula to N Sumatra, possibly on Borneo. Highly variable mimicing local Danaid species. Some ssp are rather rare, particularly the one from Borneo which is nearly all brown-black.
slateri - NE India, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam
tovoyanus - N Burma and the Thai peninsula
perses - N Sumatra, Malay Peninsula
hewitsoni - N Borneo