• DOI:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.2202.1.2
Corpus ID: 67777548

Jinhaku Sonan's skipper type collection deposited at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

@article{Chiba2009JinhakuSS,
  title={Jinhaku Sonan's skipper type collection deposited at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)},
  author={H. Chiba and Y. F. Hsu and Hiroshi Tsukiyama and P. Lo and Chien Chen and S. M. Wang},
  journal={Zootaxa},
  year={2009},
  volume={2202},
  pages={48-58}
}

H. Chiba, Y. F. Hsu, +3 authors S. M. Wang

Published 2009

Biology

Zootaxa

Of the 12 skipper taxa described by Jinhaku Sonan (1892-1984) from Taiwan and Hainan Island, 2 are recognized as valid species-level names, 4 as valid subspecies-level names, whereas the remaining 6 are considered junior subjective synonyms of other taxa. A revised status is established for a Hainan taxon, Tagiades japetus hainana Sonan, stat. rev., and Polytremis kiraizana (Sonan) is formally confirmed as a species endemic to Taiwan. The valid species-level names are Ochlodes niitakanus (Sonan… CONTINUE READING

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