Telicota palmarum hainanum Sonan, 1938

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 : 56-57

Telicota palmarum hainanum Sonan, 1938

Trans. nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 28: 370, fig. 2.

Labels: “ Telicota / palmarum / hainanum Sonan/ DET. J. SONAN,” “ palmarum ,” “ hainana/ Sonan,” “Xuechanglu [In Chinese]/ [Meiji] 41 [=1908] 4 22,” “ Holo/ Type [in red].”

Sonan (1938a) specified a male [actually female] specimen when he described Telicota palmarum hainanum Sonan , thus it represents the holotype. This holotype was located in TARI ( Fig. 34–36 ), and the specimen conforms to the original description (p. 370) and associated figure (fig. 2) given by Sonan (1938). Evans (1949) listed hainanum as a synonym of Cephrenes chrysozona oceanica (Mabille, 1904) . Maruyama (1991) pointed out that the correct name for this taxon should be Cephrenes acalle oceanica , and his treatment has been followed by de Jong & Treadaway (1993). Consequently the name hainanum Sonan, 1938 is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Cephrenes acalle oceanica (Mabille, 1904) 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.