Jinhaku Sonan’s skipper type collection deposited at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Author
Chiba, Hideyuki
Author
Hsu, Yu-Feng
Author
Tsukiyama, Hiroshi
Author
Lo, Philip Yik-Fui
Author
Chen, Chien-Ren
Author
Wang, Shou-Ming
text
Zootaxa
2009
2202
48
58
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189654
320aec2f-ea3b-427e-a2a7-bdd4969cb030
1175-5326
189654
Tagiades menaka kotoshona
Sonan, 1936
Zephyrus 6:212.
Labels: “
Tagiades
/
menaka
/ kotoshoana Sonan DET. J. SONAN,” “ Kotosho/
10 III – 14 IV 1920
/ J. Sonan/ Col. T. Okuni,” “ No. 51,” “
Type
[in red].”
A single male specimen was designated as the
holotype
in the original description and the specimen bearing the
type
label matches the description (
Fig. 7–9
).
Evans (1949)
listed
kotoshona
as a synonym of
T. litigiosa litigiosa
Möschler, 1878
. Again, no reason was given.
Umeno (1937)
pointed out that no diagnostic features could be identified between
kotoshona
and “
Tagiades menaka martinus
Pätz
[sic].”
Shirôzu (1943)
subsequently treated
kotoshona
as a synonym of
T. trebellius martinus
Plötz, 1884
. This treatment was followed by subsequent authors (e. g.
Shirôzu 1960
;
Chiba
et al.
1992
;
Tsukiyama
et al.
1997
). The
type
shows the characteristics of
T. trebellius martinus
, which is the only
Tagiades
found in Kotosho (= Lanyu) (
Shirôzu 1960
,
Yamanaka 1980
), a small island off the southeastern coast of
Taiwan
. Neither
T. menaka
Moore, 1865
nor
litigiosa
has been confirmed from
Taiwan
(
Chiba
et al.
1992
). The name
kotoshona
Sonan, 1936
is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of
T. trebellius martinus
Plötz,
1884
in the present study.