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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Erynnis montanus neomontanus
Murayama & Yoshisaka, 1959
Tyô to Ga
10(1): 14.
Labels: “
Taiwan
Hori (=Puli, in Chinese character)/1955/S. MURAYAMA,” “
E. montanus
/neomontanus/ Mur&Yoshisa/ka
HOLOTYPE
.”
A male specimen was designated as the
holotype
by
Murayama & Yoshisaka (1959)
, and the specimen was retrieved in LBM (
Figs. 4–6
; Dried Insect Database Reg. no. 1500022024).
This taxon was described based on
2 males
sent from
Mr. Masato Watanabe
to
Mr. Michio Yoshisaka. They
were among worn out butterfly specimens from
Taiwan
, and the authors claimed that it was improbable that specimens from Honshu,
Japan
were mixed in. The collecting locality was not certain and Puli, central
Taiwan
, was assigned with a question mark. In those days, Puli, a small town located in central
Taiwan
, was the place to accumulate specimens, and butterflies and some moths came from all over
Taiwan
. Butterflies also arrived from foreign countries in order to utilize their wings for art display. The authors of the taxon claimed that the
type
specimens were extremely similar but different from the Japanese and Korean samples in having the yellow dots on hindwings unclearly edged. Such variation, however, is also found in Japanese specimens, and there are a few examples in which Taiwanese and Japanese (except for the southern islands of Okinawa) specimens are so similar as in this case except for some wide-spread species like
Eurema hecabe
(Linnaeus, 1758)
or wanderers such as
Lampides boeticus
(Linnaeus, 1767)
.
Erynnis montanus
(Bremer, 1861)
obviously does not belong to such cases for this species is known as a montane dweller.As we have already regarded this taxon as a junior subjective synonym of
E. montanus
in previous publications (
Tsukiyama
et al.
1997
,
Hsu
et al.
2019
), we concluded that both specimens in the
type
series were mislabeled
.