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Issue: Vol. 4105 No. 6: 27 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.5
Page range: 591–596
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of a new species of Chonala (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) from NW Yunnan, China

Chongqing Museum of Natural History, Wenxing-wan No. 42, Beibei, Chongqing, 400700, P. R. China.
Viale Romagna 76, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Satyrini Dulong-jiang Mts. Gao-li-gong Lepidoptera China

Abstract

A new species, Chonala huertasae Lang & Bozano sp. nov., is described from Dulong-jiang valley, West slope of Mts. Gao-li-gong, NW Yunnan Province, SW China. A key to species and subspecies of the genus Chonala is given.

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