Ampittia maro matsumurai 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 : 53

Ampittia maro matsumurai Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:213.

Labels: “ Ampittia maro / matsumurai/ Sonan/ DET. J. SONAN,” “ Taiwan / Ishida,” “ No.52,” “ Type [in red].”

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Sonan (1936), and this holotype was retrieved in TARI ( Fig. 13–15 ). Evans (1949) considered this taxon a synonym of Ampittia dioscorides etura Mabille, 1891 described from Hong Kong. This treatment was followed by subsequent authors (e. g. Yamanaka 1980; Bridges 1983; Hamano 1987; Chiba et al. 1992). The name matsumurai Sonan, 1936 is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Ampittia dioscorides etura Mabille, 1891 in 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.