<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
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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 geoffroyi ceramensis
Wallace 1869
(
Figs. 81–84
)
Libythea ceramensis
Wallace 1869: 336
.
Libythea batchiana
Wallace 1869: 336
, 337
[new synonymy]
.
Libythea geoffroyi
var.
ceramensis
:
Kirby 1871: 283
.
Libythea geoffroyi
var.
batchiana
:
Kirby 1871: 283
.
Libythea geoffroyi batchiana
:
Staudinger 1889: 89
.
Libythea geoffroyi ceramensis
:
Staudinger 1889: 89
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroy
[sic] var.
ceramensis
:
Pagenstecher 1901: 10
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroy
[sic] var.
batchiana
:
Pagenstecher 1901: 10
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroyi
var.
ceramensis
:
Pagenstecher 1902: 2
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroyi
var.
batchiana
:
Pagenstecher 1902: 2
.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
seramensis
[sic]
Fruhstorfer 1909a: 52
.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
batjana
Fruhstorfer 1909a: 52
, 53.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroy
[sic]
batjana
:
Pagenstecher 1911: 6
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroy
[sic]
seramensis
[sic]:
Pagenstecher 1911: 6
.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
batchiana
:
Fruhstorfer 1914: 771
.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
ceramensis
:
Fruhstorfer 1914: 771
.
Libythea
(
Libythea
)
geoffroy
[sic]
ceramensis
:
Nakahara & Kurosawa 1958: 141
.
Diagnosis.
Libythea geoffroyi ceramensis
differs from other subspecies in that the hindwing margin of the male is weakly scalloped. The forewing dorsum of the female has an orange discal cell mark, and a large orange mark stretches from just anterior of CuA
1
to the posterior wing margin. Hindwing dorsum with a narrow orange band from M
1
to CuA
1
.
Type
Specimens Examined.
The
type
specimen of
L. g.
ceramensis
could not be located during the time of this study. The original description of
Wallace (1869)
was used as the primary reference for
L. g.
ceramensis
.
Other Specimens Examined.
(
50♂
,
12♀
):
INDONESIA
:
Bacan
:
1♂
,
25-XI-1939
, R. G.
Wind
(
CUIC
)
;
1♂
,
25-XI-1939
, R.G. and C.M.
Wind
(
MGCL
)
;
1♂
,
30-XI-1939
, R.G. and C.M.
Wind
(
MGCL
)
;
1♀
, J.
Doll
(
AMNH
)
;
1♂
, F.
Johnson
(
USNM
)
;
1♂
,
1♀
, O.
Staudinger
(
CMNH
)
;,
3♂
,
1♀
, VIII, H.
Fruhstorfer
(
BMNH
)
;
3♂
,
Platen
(
BMNH
)
;
5♂
(
BMNH
)
.
Maluku
:
Maluku Islands
,
1♂
(
BMNH
)
.
Ambon Island
,
2♂
, 1899 (
BMNH
)
. ‘Soela Island’,
6♂
, 1918, W. J. C.
Frost
(
BMNH
)
.
Seram
:
2♂
(
BMNH
)
;
2♂
,
1♀
, H.
Fruhstorfer
(
BMNH
)
;
Central Seram
,
Mansuela
,
6000 ft
[
1829 m
]
:
3♂
,
4♀
, X-XI- 1919, C. F. and J.
Pratt
(
BMNH
)
. Piroe, W. Seram,
1♂
,
29-I-1904
, J. C.
Kershaw
(
BMNH
)
.
Obi
:
1♀
, H.
Fruhstorfer
(
BMNH
)
;
Laiwui
:
1♂
,
IX-1897
, W.
Doherty
(
BMNH
)
;
1♂
, W.
Doherty
(
BMNH
)
;
1♂
, W. J. C.
Frost
(
BMNH
)
;
13♂
,
3♀
, H.
Fruhstorfer
(
BMNH
)
.
Uncertain
country
:
1♂
(
AMNH
)
.
Distribution.
Indonesia
:
Ambon
, Bacan, Halmahera,
Maluku
, Obi and Seram.
Remarks.
Wallace (1869: 336)
described
Libythea batchiana
, which he considered ‘very close to
L. ceramensis
.’ He distinguished
L. ceramensis
by its elongate and rounded wing apex, hindwing shape, wing venation and color. The two taxa are here synonymized because none of the specimens from Bacan could be readily distinguished from those from Seram.