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Issue: Vol. 4555 No. 1: 12 Feb. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.1.4
Page range: 56–66
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 1

Resurrection of Caltoris ranrunna (Sonan) from synonymy as a skipper endemic to Taiwan based on COI barcode and morphology

Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C.
School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.5 Dongfeng Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450002, P. R. China.
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C.
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R. O. C.
Lepidoptera Caltoris cahira DNA barcode species delimitation COI gene Hesperiidae

Abstract

Caltoris ranrunna (Sonan, 1936) is resurrected from synonymy of Caltoris cahira austeni (Moore, 1883) to represent a Caltoris species endemic to Taiwan based upon COI barcode divergence and morphological diagnosis in genitalia of both sexes. This species distributes allopatrically from C. cahira of continental Asia and Andamans.

 

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