Carterocephalus dieckmanni soyosanus Murayama, 1983

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 : 284-287

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scientific name	Carterocephalus dieckmanni soyosanus Murayama, 1983
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Entomotaxonomia 5(4): 284.

Labels : “Soyosan (in Chinese character)/ S. Korea (in Chinese character)/ 24-4-1944 / MURAYAMA,” “dieckmanni/ soyosanus/ HOLOTYPE (in red).”

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Murayama (1983), and the specimen was retrieved in LBM ( Figs. 37–39 View FIGURES 37–45 ; Dried Insect Database Reg. no. 1500022017).

The subspecific name soyosanus has not been popularized in Korea. No subspecific name is assigned to dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 in two recently published butterfly books in Korea ( Joo et al. 1997, Kim 2002).

Evans (1949) recognized 4 subspecies of dieckmanni based on the difference in the central band on the ventral side of the hindwing. Even a brief examination of specimens tells us that some of the subspecific names should be synonymized due to clinal variation.After examining 57 specimens (1 from Russia, 3 from Korea, 2 from Northeast China, 13 from North China, 37 from West China, and 1 from Myanmar) in the Tsukiyama Collection , we found that the markings used by Evans (1949) as diagnostic characters to distinguish subspecies actually represent a clinal variation. The difference between ssp. dieckmanni and ssp. gemmatus Leech, 1891 is not clearly defined, and so is the difference between ssp. minor Evans, 1932 and ssp. watsoni Evans, 1932 . Consequently, no subspecific name is necessary for Korean populations of dieckmanni .

We consider soyosanus a junior subjective synonym of nominotypical dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 , syn. nov.

References

Evans, W. H. (1949) A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). BMNH, London, 502 pp., 53 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 105941

Joo, H. - Z., Kim, S. - S. & Sohn, J. - D. (1997) Butterflies of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing, Seoul, 436 pp.

Kim, Y. - S. (2002) Illustrated Book of Korean Butterflies in Color. Kyo-Hak Publishing, Seoul, 305 pp.

Murayama, S. (1943) Uber einige Lycaeniden und Hesperiiden von Formosa. Zephyrus, 9 (3), 170 - 175. [in Japanese]

Murayama, S. & Yoshisaka, M. (1959) Die neu aus Formosa entdeckte Art, Erynnis montanus Bremer. Tyo to Ga, 10 (1), 14.

Murayama, S. & Shimonoya, T. (1962) On some interesting butterflies from Formosa with descriptions of 2 new species, 2 new races and 7 new aberrant forms. Tyo to Ga, 13 (3), 51 - 59. [in Japanese]

Murayama, S. & Shimonoya, T. (1968) A contribution to taxonomy of the Formosan butterflies, with descriptions of 1 new species, 1 new race, 1 unrecorded species, and 11 new aberrant forms. New Entomologist, 17 (1), 1 - 16. [in Japanese]

Murayama, S. (1981) Notes on some butterflies of Provinces Szechwan, Zhejiang, Taiwan in China. New Entomologist, 30 (2), 10 - 13.

Murayama, S. (1983) Some new Rhopalocera from southwest and northwest China (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Entomotaxonomia, 5 (4), 281 - 288.

Murayama, S. (1995) Descriptions of 3 new species and 5 new races of Chinese butterflies from Yunnan Province. Nature & Insects, 30 (14), 32 - 35 [in Japanese]

Shimonoya, T. & Murayama, S. (1976) Remarks on some Formosan Rhopalocera with descriptions of two new species, and the revision of a few scientific names. Tyo to Ga, 27 (2), 43 - 48. [in Japanese]

Figures

FIGURES 37–45. 37–39. Carterocephalus dieckmanni soyosanus Murayama, 1983, holotype; 40–42. Sebastonyma suthepiana Murayama & Kimura, 1990, holotype; 43–45. Halpe nuydai Murayama & Okamura, 1973, holotype. Scale bar = 1 cm.