<strong> Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae) </ strong>
Author
Kawahara, Akito Y.
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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 geoffroyi eborinus
Samson 1980
Libythea geoffroyi eborinus
Samson 1980: 219–221
,
Figs. 6
a-6d.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
eborius
[sic]:
Okano 1987: 2
.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
elorinus
[sic]:
Motono 1993: 19–21
, 51.
Libythea geoffroy
[sic]
eborinus
:
Tennent 2002: 136
, 358, pl. 61,
Figs. 10, 11
.
Diagnosis.
Libythea geoffroyi eborinus
is similar other subspecies of
L. geoffroyi
but differs in that the forewing dorsum of male has a bright white subapical band from Rs
3
+ Rs
4
to M
3
. Forewing of female with a broad white band from costa to M
3
, a square white mark in the discal cell, and a large white mark spanning from M
3
to 1A + 2A.
Type Specimens Examined.
Libythea geoffroyi eborinus
,
Samson 1980
HOLOTYPE
:
♂
,
Solomon Islands
,
Makira
(San Cristobal),
North Coast
,
Pamua
,
I-1964
,
W. R. M. Low
,
L. g. eborinus
Samson
Holotype
(
BMNH
).
ALLOTYPE
:
1♀
,
Solomon Islands
,
Makira
(San Cristobal),
Wai-wai
,
IX-1963
,
W. R. M. Low
,
L. g. ebornus
paratype
(yellow round label) / B.
Solomon Islands, San Cristobal
,
Wai Wai
,
IX-1963
,
W. R. M. Low
/
Libythea geoffroyi
Godt.
Eborinus
Samson.
Allotype
Female
Det. C. P. J. Samson
1978 (
BMNH
).
Other Specimens Examined.
(
1♂
):
Solomon Islands
,
Makira
(San Cristobal)
,
North Coast
,
Pamua
,
1♂
,
I- 1964
,
W. R. M. Low
(
BMNH
)
.
Distribution.
Solomon Islands
:
San Cristobal
.
Remarks.
Samson (1980)
described this subspecies from a male and female specimen, which he designated the
holotype
and
allotype
respectively.