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Parnara ranrunna Sonan 1936

Description

Parnara ranrunna Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:215.

Label: “ Parnara / ranrunna Sonan / DET. J. SONAN,” “ Ranrun/ 10 III 1926 / S. Isshiki,” “ No. 67,” “ Type [in red].”

A single male specimen was designated as the holotype by Sonan (1936), and the holotype was retrieved from TARI (Fig. 25–27). Evans (1949) synonymized this taxon with Caltoris bromus yanuca Fruhstorfer, 1911. However, his treatment was not followed by most subsequent authors (e. g. Shirôzu 1960; Hamano 1986; Chiba et al. 1992), who retained it as a distinct Caltoris species. Yamanaka (1980), citing an unpublished idea from Hiroshi Tsukiyama, regarded this taxon as a junior synonym of Caltoris cahira austeni (Moore, 1884). This viewpoint was endorsed by Hsu and Wang (2005), and accepted by the present study.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 48-58 in Zootaxa 2202 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189654

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sonan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Parnara
Species
ranrunna
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parnara ranrunna Sonan, 1936 sec. Chiba, Hsu, Tsukiyama, Lo, Chen & Wang, 2009

References

  • Evans, W. H. (1949) A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). The British Museum (Natural History), London, xix + 502 pp.
  • Shirozu, T. (1960) Butterflies of Formosa in Colour. Hoikusha, Osaka, 481 pp. [In Japanese]
  • Hamano, E. (1986) Ecological Encyclopedia of Taiwanese Butterflies. Kodansha, Tokyo, 474 pp. [In Japanese]
  • Chiba, H., Hsu, Y. F. & Shirozu, T. (1992) Hesperiidae. In: Heppner, J. N., Inoue, H. (Eds.) Lepidoptera of Taiwan, Vol. 1, part 2: checklist. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Gainesville, pp. 130 - 132.
  • Yamanaka, M. (1980) Distribution of Formosan butterflies. Tyo to Ga 30, suppl. 1, 1 - 143. [In Japanese]
  • Hsu, Y. F. & Wang, S. M. (2005) Notes on immature biology of a rare skipper Caltoris bromus yanuca Fruhstorfer (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), with a discussion on the systematic status of Parnara ranrunna Sonan. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 80, 70 - 81.