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Issue: Vol. 4294 No. 4: 20 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.7
Page range: 480–486
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of new taxa of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from China

Belehradska 271, 53009, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Lepidoptera Rhopalocera Clossiana Euphydryas Chalinga Gansu Sichuan Yunnan new species

Abstract

Three new taxa, Clossiana gansuensis sp. nov., Euphydryas aurinia sichuanica subsp. nov. and Chalinga puerensis sp. nov. are described from Yunnan, Gansu and Sichuan Provinces in China. The taxonomic status of Euphydryas aurinia tenebricosa (Bang-Haas, 1927) is revised.

 

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