DISTRIBUTION:

Salassa inversa (forewing length: males: 55mm; females: ??mm) flies in western Myanmar: Chin State, Kennedy Peak, summit near pagoda, 2690m, over open grassland with Rhododendron & Quercus forest areas.

This species is dark orange on its dorsal wing surface and dark maroon on the ventral surface. The apex is only slightly produced, and is very similarly to that of S. lola. The cell spot is very small and almost crescent-shaped.

On the hindwing, the cell is approximatately 3/4 surrounded by a distant, thick black arc, outwardly traced with a thin white line. Inwardly there is a wider basal white semicircle, capping a wide red ring, with a very thin inner black ring, then a very thin bluish-white ring, and a thicker black ring (iris) with a small glassy center (pupil).

Salassa inversa male (verso), Kennedy Peak, Chin, Myanmar,
May 18, 2001, 2690m, courtesy of Stefan Naumann,
extensive digital repair by Bill Oehlke.

On the ventral surface, the brighter, lighter postmedian band is very distinct from the darker basal median areas and the marginal area. On the hindwing ventral surface, the delineating, thin white pm line ends substantially more closely to the wing basis than in S. lola.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Moths are on the wing in May, and possibly in other months.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Larvae spin loose cocoons near the ground amongst loose debris.

Larval Food Plants

It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

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S. inversa is named after the reversed sequence of the color ring of that behind ügelocelle in comparison with S. lola.

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The European Entomologist, Vol. 2, No. 3{4}, pp 93-122, on my home computer only.