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Issue: Vol. 3274 No. 1: 20 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3274.1.7
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

Polytremis jigongi: a new skipper from China (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, P.R. China
Shanghai Zoological Park, Shanghai, 200335, P.R. China
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, P.R. China
Lepidoptera skipper Zhejiang taxonomy Polytremis jigongi Hesperiinae Baorini

Abstract

A new species, Polytremis jigongi is described from Zhejiang, China. The new taxon resembles four congeneric species P.nascens (Leech), P. micropunctata (Huang), P. theca (Evans) and P. mencia (Moore), which are also analyzed and compared in the present study, and their geographical distribution in China is mapped. A key to the genus Polytremis of the world is given.

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