Liptena dunnia, Libert, Michel, 2024

Libert, Michel, 2024, Note on Liptena undina (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894), with the description of two new taxa (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Poritiinae), Metamorphosis 35, pp. 31-36 : 34

Liptena dunnia sp. nov.

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Liptena dunnia dunnia ssp. nov. (Figs 15 to 18)

Liptena undina Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894 s. Jackson (1937: 207), Berger (1981: 247), Ducarme (2018: 31).

Holotype: male, Beni , Kivu, NE RDC, IX 1999 ( R. Ducarme); IRSNB.

Allotype: female, Beni , Kivu, NE RDC, VII 1991 ( R. Ducarme); IRSNB.

Distribution ( Fig. 12)

The western limit of the distribution of the nominate subspecies is in central DRC ( Salonga National Park), where a male, very different from those of subspecies reducta, was captured (genitalia Libert, 123–053; ANHRT). A little further east, around sixty specimens

1 The labels indicate ‘ 70 km Mbandaka’, without further details; among the many localities in the DRC called ‘Ekombe’, and whose coordinates are available on the internet, only one meets Early stages

They were described by Jackson (1934: 207) who bred L. d. dunnia in the Budongo forest (W Uganda); his observations are taken up by Williams (2022).