Polycaena kansuensis subhuti Sakai, 2015

Huang, Hao & Li, Yu-Fei, 2016, Notes on the genus Polycaena Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) with descriptions of two new species from China, Zootaxa 4105 (6), pp. 575-590 : 583

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:47202F2D-9A6B-45BA-A99E-1E723C6E542B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056553
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scientific name	Polycaena kansuensis subhuti Sakai, 2015
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Polycaena kansuensis subhuti Sakai, 2015: 9 , figs. 73–74 for ♂, 111–112 for ♀, TL: Heimahe, Kukunor (Qinghai Lake), Qinghai.

Material. None.

Remarks. The male of ssp. subhuti cannot be separated from that of ssp. kansuensis soundly, as the former falls within the range of individual variation of the latter. However, the female of ssp. subhuti bears an orange ground color in the postdiscal area of the hindwing upper side, looking like that of P. matuta shii Huang, 2014 , whereas the female of ssp. kansuensis , at most, bears some whitish spots on a grayish brown ground color in the postdiscal area of the hindwing upper side.

Distribution. Northern Qinghai (Heimahe, southwest of Qinghai Lake).