<strong> Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae) </ strong>
Author
Kawahara, Akito Y.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-03-22
3631
1
1
74
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3631.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3631.1.1
1175-5326
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Libythea labdaca ancoata
Grose-Smith 1891
(
Figs. 103, 104
)
Libythea ancoata
Grose-Smith 1891a: 126
.
Libythea cinyras ancoata
Fruhstorfer 1898: 170
.
Libythea
(
Dichora
)
cinyras
var.
ancoata
:
Pagenstecher 1901: 13
.
Oberthür 1910: 54
[=
cinyras
ancoata
].
Libythea labdaca
var.
subintegra
Aurivillius 1921
[new synonymy]
.
Dichora cinyras ancoata
:
Hering 1921: 273
.
Dichora ancoata
:
Hering 1921: 273
.
Libythea
(
Dichora
)
cinyras ancoata
:
Peters 1952: 90
.
Libythea labdaca ancoata
Shields 1984a: 265
.
Diagnosis.
Libythea labdaca ancoata
is most similar to
L.
l. labdaca
but its forewing dorsum lacks a bright white streak in cell 1A + 2A, and its hindwing has a faint white median band which is strong and distinct in
L.
l. labdaca
.
Type Specimens Examined.
Libythea ancoata
Grose-Smith 1891
,
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
,
Madagascar
:
Irast
(
BMNH
).
Other Specimens Examined.
(
14♂
):
MADAGASCAR
:
4♂
(
BMNH
)
;
2♂
, Last (
BMNH
)
.
1♂
, Antanosy (
BMNH
)
;
2♂
, 1893, Last (
BMNH
)
.
1♂
, Maromandia,
IV-1932
(
CMNH
)
;
3♂
,
VI-1932
(
CMNH
)
. '
South Madagascar'
,
1♂
(
BMNH
)
.
Distribution.
Madagascar
.
Remarks.
There has been some uncertainty in whether to recognize this taxon as a subspecies of
L. cinyras
or a separate species. Based on the striking wing pattern and its close resemblance to
L. labdaca labdaca
, I follow
Shields (1984a)
and treat this taxon as a subspecies of
L. labdaca
.
There are no signficiant differences in genitalia between the two subspecies.