Eumenotes pacao Esaki, 1922

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Eumenotes pacao Esaki, 1922

Eumenotus [ sic!] pacao Esaki, 1922: 197–198 (description). HOLOTYPE: J, Taiwan, Kappanzan Mt., near Toyen [= Taoyuan] (KUEC).

Eumenotes pacao: ESAKI (1926) : 153 (list, distribution).

Eumenotes obscura (partim, including E. pacao ): ESAKI (1930): 628 –631 (systematic placement, taxonomy, E. pacao synonymised with E. obscura , variability, habitus ¿gure, host plant, distribution); HOFFMANN (1935): 116 (catalogue, distribution); TAKARA (1957): 35 (distribution); MIYAMOTO & HIDAKA (1960): 43 (distribution); STICHEL (1961): 725 (catalogue); STICHEL (1962): 205 (catalogue); MIYAMOTO (1965): 229 (distribution); HSIAO et al. (1977): 72, pl. 9: ¿g. 131 (redescription, habitus ¿gure); DURAI (1987): 262 ( pacao listed in synonymy); HUA (1990): 170 (check-list, distribution, host plant); LIS (1990): 143 (catalogue, distribution); MIYAMOTO & YASUNAGA (1991): 184 (check-list); ROLSTON et al. (1996): 78 (catalogue, distribution).

Eumenotes obscurus (partim, including E. pacao ): ZHANG (1995): 24 –26 (redescription, egg, larva, bionomics, host plant, distribution).

Eumenotes pacao: KOCOREK & LIS (2000) : 9, 20–21 (taxonomy, species status restored, distribution, ¿gures of male genitalia); LIS et al. (2002): 167, 182–183 (pretarsal structures, ¿gures, distribution); LIS (2006): 231 (catalogue, distribution); KOCOREK (2012): 2 (distribution).

Material examined. TAIWAN: NANTOU COUNTY: Puli-Yüchin [= Puli-Yuchi], Sun Moon lake, 29.v.–13.vi.1993, 1 J 3 ♀♀, 16.–24.vi.1993, 1 J, J. Dalihod lgt., P. Kment det. ( ZJPC). – VIETNAM: S-Vietnam, 12 km N Dalat – Lang Bien, 1 J 1 ♀, P. Pacholátko & L. Dembický lgt., A. Kocorek det. ( NHMW).

Host plant. The species was reported to cause serious damage to sweet potatoes ( Ipomoea batatas ) in Amami-oshima in 1929 ( ESAKI 1930). HUA (1990) further listed Calystegia hederacea (Convolvulaceae) as a host plant without further details. According to ZHANG (1995) it feeds on Calystegia hederacea , Ipomoea purpurea , and members of the Brassicaceae , but prefers C. hederacea .

Distribution. Japan: Ishigaki I. (KOCOREK 2012), Amami-oshima I. ( ESAKI 1930), Okinawa ( HOFFMANN 1935, TAKARA 1957), Okinawa-jima I. ( TAKARA 1957), Tokara Islands (MIYAMO- TO & HIDAKA 1960); Taiwan ( ESAKI 1922, 1926; MIYAMOTO 1965; KOCOREK 2012); China: Guangdong (HUA 1990), Guizhou (HUA 1990), Hainan (HUA 1990), Yunnan (HUA 1990); and Vietnam (new record).