Gangara thyrsis hainana Sonan, 1930

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 : 56

Gangara thyrsis hainana Sonan, 1930

Trans. nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 20: 37.

Labels: “ Gangara / thyrsis / hainana Son./ DET. J. SONAN,” “ thyrsis ,” “ hainana/ Sonan,” “ Hainan 1929[?].”

Sonan (1930a) specified “one mall[e]” when he described Gangara thyrsis hainana , thus it represents the holotype of the taxon. This holotype was found in TARI ( Fig. 31–33 ). Evans (1949) listed hainana as a synonym of Gangara thyrsis thyrsis (Fabricius, 1775) . Gangara thyrsis is widespread from the Himalayas across India and Sundaland to the Philippines and Sulawesi with weak geographical differentiation ( Evans 1949), and we follow Evans’ treatment. The name hainana Sonan, 1930 is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Gangara thyrsis thyrsis (Fabricius, 1775) in the present study.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 39. Types of skipper taxa described by Jinhaku Sonan: 19 – 21, paratype of Augiades bouddha niitakana, upperside, underside, labels; 22 – 24, holotype of Parnara kotoshona, upperside, underside, labels; 25 – 27, holotype of Parnara ranrunna, upperside, underside, labels; 28 – 30, holotype of Pamara kiraizana, upperside, underside, labels; 31 – 33, holotype of Gangara thyrsis hainana, upperside, underside, labels; 34 – 36, holotype of Telicota palmarum hainanum, upperside, upperside, labels; 37 – 39, holotype of Tagiades menaka hainana, upperside, underside, labels.