Notocrypta arisana 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 : 51-53

Notocrypta arisana Sonan, 1930

Zephyrus 2:175, Tab. 14, fig. 7.

Labels: “ Notocrypta / arisana Sonan / DET. J. SONAN,” “ Formosa / Arisan 1918./ X 2–23 / J. SONAN/ M. YOSHINO,” “ No. 55,” “ Type [in red].”

A male specimen was designated as the [holo] type in the original description ( Sonan 1930b), and the holotype was retrieved in TARI ( Fig. 10–12 ). Evans (1949) listed arisana as a synonym of Notocrypta paralysos asawa Fruhstorfer, 1911 , and this treatment was followed by Bridges (1983). However, N. paralysos has not been recorded on the main island of Taiwan ( Chiba et al. 1992). Shirôzu (1960) considered arisana a melanin form of N. curvifascia . Based on the investigation by Hiroshi Tsukiyama, Morishita (1978) treated it as a subspecies of N. feisthamelii (Boisduval, 1832) . This treatment was followed by subsequent authors (e. g. Yamanaka 1980; Hsu & Li 1989; Chiba et al. 1992), and is accepted by the present study.

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.