Parnara ranrunna Sonan, 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 : 54

Parnara ranrunna Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:215.

Label: “ Parnara / ranrunna Sonan / DET. J. SONAN,” “ Ranrun/ 10 III 1926 / S. Isshiki,” “ No. 67,” “ Type [in red].”

A single male specimen was designated as the holotype by Sonan (1936), and the holotype was retrieved from TARI ( Fig. 25–27 ). Evans (1949) synonymized this taxon with Caltoris bromus yanuca Fruhstorfer, 1911 . However, his treatment was not followed by most subsequent authors (e. g. Shirôzu 1960; Hamano 1986; Chiba et al. 1992), who retained it as a distinct Caltoris species. Yamanaka (1980), citing an unpublished idea from Hiroshi Tsukiyama, regarded this taxon as a junior synonym of Caltoris cahira austeni (Moore, 1884) . This viewpoint was endorsed by Hsu and Wang (2005), and accepted by the present study.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 39. Types of skipper taxa described by Jinhaku Sonan: 19 – 21, paratype of Augiades bouddha niitakana, upperside, underside, labels; 22 – 24, holotype of Parnara kotoshona, upperside, underside, labels; 25 – 27, holotype of Parnara ranrunna, upperside, underside, labels; 28 – 30, holotype of Pamara kiraizana, upperside, underside, labels; 31 – 33, holotype of Gangara thyrsis hainana, upperside, underside, labels; 34 – 36, holotype of Telicota palmarum hainanum, upperside, upperside, labels; 37 – 39, holotype of Tagiades menaka hainana, upperside, underside, labels.