- Phayre's Leaf Monkey
Phayre's Leaf Monkey ("Trachypithecus phayrei"), also known as Phayre's Langur, is a species of Langur found in
Southeast Asia . The species epitheton commedoratesArthur Purves Phayre .The species used to be earlier called "Presbytis phayrei". The distribution includes Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
They are mostly arboreal and feed on leaves of a large number of tree species. A study in Tripura, India found the principal food tree species to be "Albizzia procera", "Melocanna bambusoides", "Callicarpa arborea", "Dillenia pentagyna", "Litsea sp.", "Albizzia lebbek", "Mikania scandens", "Gmelina arborea", "Artocarpus chaplasha", "Syzygium fruticosum", "Ficus fistulosa", "Ficus racemosa", "Ficus hispida", "Ficus indica". "Macaranga denticulata" and "Albizzia stipulata". [Gupta, A. K. (2005) Dietary differences between two groups of Phayre's Langur "Trachypithecus phayrei" in Tripura, India: Responses to food abundance and human disturbance. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 102(1):3-9]
There are three accepted subspecies of this
lutung :
*"Trachypithecus phayrei phayrei"
*"Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus"
*"Trachypithecus phayrei shanicus"References
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