Pseudocoladenia pinsbukana Shimonoya & Murayama, 1976

Chiba, Hideyuki, Tsukiyama, Hiroshi, Liang, Jia-Yuan, Wang, Shou-Ming, Shen, Zong-Yu & Hsu, Yu-Feng, 2020, The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 4801 (2), pp. 280-290 : 282

Pseudocoladenia pinsbukana Shimonoya & Murayama, 1976

Tyô to Ga 27(2): 44.

Labels: “Shinseimura Kyusenkei (= Xinshengcun Jiuxianxi, in Chinese character)/ Formosa/APR.15.1970,” “ Pseudocoladenia pinsbukana ,/SHIMONOYA et/ MURAYAMA 1976,” “ Holotype.” However , the type locality given in the original description was different, reading “Amuh-chi”, a locality not recognized on any map of Taiwan, presumably a local name of Jiuxianxi .

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Shimonoya & Murayama (1976), and the specimen was retrieved in the Shimonoya collection ( Figs. 13–15 ).

Shimonoya & Murayama (1976) considered that pinsbukana was close to Coladenia sheila Evans, 1939 from China. In describing the new species, however, they somehow compared it with Pseudocoladenia dan (Fabricius, 1787) from India. The wing markings, especially the 2 costal hyaline spots over the cell on the forewing recognized in the holotype, are a diagnostic character of Coladenia hoenei Evans, 1939 . The discal dots on the hindwing are reduced in pinsbukana , whereas those of hoenei are more prominent. A slight difference is also seen in the male genitalia, if their drawing is accurate. The dorsal process of valva is narrower than the ventral process in hoenei , whereas those of pinsbukana are nearly of the same width ( Hsu et al. 2019) .

We regard pinsbukana as a valid species name in the genus Coladeni a Moore, 1881 for the present.

Figures

FIGURES 1–18. 1–3. Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943, holotype; 4–6. Erynnis montanus neomontanus Murayama & Yoshisaka, 1959, holotype; 7–9. Ochlodes siva yuchingkina Murayama & Shimonoya, 1962, holotype; 10–12. Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1968, holotype; 13–15. Pseudocoladenia pinsbukana Shimonoya & Murayama, 1976, holotype; 16–18. Polytremis zina taiwana Murayama, 1981, holotype. Scale bar = 1 cm.