Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943

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 : 281

Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943

Zephyrus 9(3): 170.

Labels : “ Taiwan Musha (=Wushe, in Chinese Character)/ 22-VI-1941 /S MURAYAMA,” “ Ampittia /matudai/ HOLOTYPE.”

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Murayama (1943), and the specimen was retrieved in LBM ( Figs. 1–3 ; Dried Insect Database Reg. no. 1500022019).

Additional specimens of the species were not reported until Murayama (1955) found a pair in Sugitani’s collection deposited at Kyushu University. HC tried to locate those specimens, but they were removed from the collection and no record was kept as to who loaned or took them. Subsequent records of matudai ( Lin 1994, Lin & Su 2013) turned out to be either A. inachus (Ménétriés, 1858) ( Hsu et al. 2019) or A. bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1968 ( Hsu 2013, Sugisaka 2018). YFH undertook investigations at the type locality of the taxon every year since 1982 searching for the species but in vain. The vicinity of the area was covered with decent vegetation before the end of World War II but was later severely deforested and disturbed due to horticultural practice.

We regard matudai as a valid specific name in the genus Aeromachus de Nicéville, 1890 following the treatment in Chiba et al. (1992) and Hsu et al. (2019). Huang (2009) considered that the taxon should be treated as a subspecies of A. jesta (Evans, 1939) . This point of view awaits further evaluation.

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.