Lobocla kodairai Sonan, 1936

Chiba, Hideyuki, Hsu, Yu-Feng, Tsukiyama, Hiroshi, Lo, Philip Yik-Fui, Chen, Chien-Ren & Wang, Shou-Ming, 2009, Jinhaku Sonan’s skipper type collection deposited at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 2202, pp. 48-58 : 49-50

Lobocla kodairai Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:209.

Labels (the slash denotes new line): “ Lobocla / kodairai Sonan / DET. J. SONAN,” “Hori/ 27 VII 1934 / K. Kodaira,” “ No. 49,” “ Type [in red].”

Only one female specimen ( Fig. 1–2 ) was included in Sonan’s (1936) original description of this taxon. The material bearing the type label ( Fig. 3 ) matches the original description. Evans (1949) treated kodairai as a synonym of Lobocla bifasciata (Bremer & Grey, 1853) , while Shirôzu (1944, 1960) retained the name kodairai as a subspecific name. Lobocla bifasciata shows tremendous variation especially in male genitalia ( Evans 1949). There is no doubt that this taxon belongs to bifasciata or its complex because its male genitalia ( Shirôzu 1960) agree with those of bifasciata , but in order to judge whether the Taiwanese taxon is distinct or not, further investigation is required. Evans (1949) suspected that kodairai might be represented by a stray specimen, evidently an erroneous view as this taxon has been shown to be a montane skipper native to the island ( Shirôzu 1960; Yamanaka 1980). We tentatively follow Shirôzu’s (1944, 1960) treatment, regarding kodairai Sonan, 1936 as a subspecific name of Lobocla bifasciata (Bremer & Grey, 1853) .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 18. Types of skipper taxa described by Jinhaku Sonan: 1 – 3, holotype of Lobocla kodairai, upperside, underside, labels; 4 – 6, holotype of Coladenia sadakoe, upperside, underside, labels; 7 – 9, holotype of Tagiades menaka kotoshona, upperside, underside, labels; 10 – 12, holotype of Notocrypta arisana, upperside, underside, labels; 13 – 15, holotype of Ampittia maro matsumurai, upperside, underside, labels; 16 – 18. holotype of Augiades bouddha niitakana, upperside, underside, labels.