The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Author
Chiba, Hideyuki
Natural Science Department, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI 96817 0916, USA.
Author
Tsukiyama, Hiroshi
34 - 18, Narashoinodai # 2 - 203, Funabashi-Shi, Chiba Pref. 274 - 0063.
Author
Liang, Jia-Yuan
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C. & sesiidae 760402 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4320 - 3695
Author
Wang, Shou-Ming
Conservation Section, Conservation and Recreation Division, Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan 100, R. O. C. falcon @ forest. gov. tw; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4157 - 9736
Author
Shen, Zong-Yu
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C. & jeffshannnu 2014 mouse @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2566 - 7349
Author
Hsu, Yu-Feng
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-18
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journal article
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Ampittia matudai
Murayama, 1943
Zephyrus
9(3): 170.
Labels
: “
Taiwan
Musha (=Wushe, in Chinese Character)/
22-VI-1941
/S MURAYAMA,” “
Ampittia
/matudai/
HOLOTYPE
.”
A male specimen was designated as the
holotype
by
Murayama (1943)
, and the specimen was retrieved in
LBM
(
Figs. 1–3
; Dried Insect Database Reg. no. 1500022019).
Additional specimens of the species were not reported until
Murayama (1955)
found a pair in Sugitani’s collection deposited at Kyushu University. HC tried to locate those specimens, but they were removed from the collection and no record was kept as to who loaned or took them. Subsequent records of
matudai
(
Lin 1994
,
Lin & Su 2013
) turned out to be either
A. inachus
(Ménétriés, 1858) (
Hsu
et al.
2019
)
or
A. bandaishanus
Murayama & Shimonoya, 1968
(
Hsu 2013
,
Sugisaka 2018
). YFH undertook investigations at the
type
locality of the taxon every year since 1982 searching for the species but in vain. The vicinity of the area was covered with decent vegetation before the end of World War II but was later severely deforested and disturbed due to horticultural practice.
We regard
matudai
as a valid specific name in the genus
Aeromachus
de Nicéville, 1890
following the treatment in
Chiba
et al.
(1992)
and
Hsu
et al.
(2019)
.
Huang (2009)
considered that the taxon should be treated as a subspecies of
A. jesta
(Evans, 1939)
. This point of view awaits further evaluation.