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Issue: Vol. 4895 No. 3: 16 Dec. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.9
Page range: 440–444
Abstract views: 95
PDF downloaded: 4

Description of a new subspecies of Dodona dipoea Hewitson, [1866] (Lycaenidae: Riodininae) from S.W. Chongqing, China

College of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.5 Dongfeng Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450002, P. R. China.
Forest Resource Service Center of Simian Mountain, Chongqing, 402296, P. R. China.
Technology Center of China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co., Ltd., Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210019, P. R. China.
Lycaenidae pseudokaterina katerina wing pattern male genitalia female genitalia Simian Mountain

Abstract

Dodona dipoea pseudokaterina subsp. nov. is described from southwestern Chongqing, China. The wing patterns of the type specimens are similar to those of D. katerina Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000, but the genitalic characters of both sexes show that they belong to D. dipoea Hewitson, [1866]. Adults and genitalia of both sexes of the new subspecies, and adults of the nominate subspecies are illustrated.

 

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