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Issue: Vol. 4763 No. 4: 15 Apr. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.2
Page range: 485–500
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On systematic status of Spindasis syama Horsfield, [1829] in Taiwan and the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeini)

Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C.
Department of Biology, Ningde Normal University, Ningde, Fujian 352100, P. R. China
Lepidoptera new subspecies new status myrmecophily Crematogester Cigaritis

Abstract

Based upon both morphological and gene barcode evidence, the population of Spindasis syama in Taiwan is described as Spindasis syama lamuae, ssp. nov., and the taxon negrita Felder, 1862 is revised as a species endemic to the Philippines (stat. rev.).

 

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