Coladenia sadakoe Sonan & Mitono, 1936

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), Zootaxa 2202, pp. 48-58 : 51

Coladenia sadakoe Sonan & Mitono, 1936

Zephyrus 6:184

Labels: “ Coladenia / sadakoe / Sonan et Mitono/ DET J. SONAN,” “ KAHODAI/ FORMOSA / 1930. X.25 / COL. T MITONO,” “No. 50,” “ Type [in red].”

A single female was designated as the holotype in the original description ( Sonan and Mitono 1936) and the specimen ( Fig. 4–6 ) examined from TARI matches the description. Evans (1949) listed this taxon as a synonym of C. agni igna Semper, 1892 without giving any reason. This treatment was followed by Shirôzu (1960) and Bridges (1983). The type specimen shows the characteristics of Pseudocoladenia dan (Moore 1881) rather than C. agni igna ( Shimonoya & Murayama 1976) . This viewpoint was accepted by subsequent authors (e. g. Yamanaka 1980; Uchida 1991; Chiba et al. 1992; Uchida 1995; Hsu et al. 2007). The name sadakoe Sonan & Mitono, 1936 is considered a valid subspecific name for P. d a n from Taiwan in the present study.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 18. Types of skipper taxa described by Jinhaku Sonan: 1 – 3, holotype of Lobocla kodairai, upperside, underside, labels; 4 – 6, holotype of Coladenia sadakoe, upperside, underside, labels; 7 – 9, holotype of Tagiades menaka kotoshona, upperside, underside, labels; 10 – 12, holotype of Notocrypta arisana, upperside, underside, labels; 13 – 15, holotype of Ampittia maro matsumurai, upperside, underside, labels; 16 – 18. holotype of Augiades bouddha niitakana, upperside, underside, labels.