Spitosa sobrina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Nemeobiinae
Tribus: Nemeobiini
Subtribe: Nemeobiina
Genus: Spitosa
Species:

Name

Spitosa sobrina (Mell, 1923)

Type locality: China, Western Yunnan ("Bergwälder in Westjünnan", i.e. area around Fengyi town, Dali City, Western Yunnan Province, Southwestern China). Lectotype from Xiaochifo, Dali, Western Yunnan.

Typus: Lectotype, Male ♂. ZMB, legit 09.IX.(19)14.

Synonymy

Sospita sobrina Mell, 1923: 159. (Original combination)
Abisara sobrina (Mell, 1923); e.g. Huang, 1987: 1162; Bridges 1994: 431; Lee 1995: 145.
Abisara freda Bennett, 1957: 27, pl. 2, figs. 1–3. (Junior synonym of Abisara sobrina in Huang et al., 2024: 592).
- Type locality: West China, S.Shan States, Loimwe.
  - Typus: Holotype, male ♂ NHML
Abisara freda daliensis Sugiyama, 1992: 10, figs. 23, 24. (Junior synonym of Abisara sobrina in Huang et al., 2024: 592)
- Type locality: China, Yunnan, Dali.
  - Typus: Holotype, male ♂, Sugiyama legit H. Sugiyama, 25.V.1988.
Spitosa sobrina (Mell, 1923); Huang, Inayoshi & Espeland 2024: 299.

Native distribution areas

Southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

References

Primary references

Bennett, N.H. 1957. A new species of Abisara from Burma (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae). The Entomologist, 90: 27, pl. 2. Reference page.
Mell, R. 1923. Noch unbeschriebene Lepidopteren aus Südchina. II. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift: 153–160. BHL Reference page.
Huang, F.-S. 1987. 云南森林昆虫 [Forest insects of Yunnan.] Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming, 1622 pp. [in Chinese, English summary]. Reference page.
Huang, S-Y., Inayoshi, Y., Léger, T. & Espeland, M. 2024. The riodinid taxa described by Rudolf Emil Mell (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Riodinidae), with notes on related ones. Zootaxa 5481(5): 591–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.5.8. . Reference page. [lectotype, notes: p. 592]
Huang, S-Y., Inayoshi, Y. & Espeland, M. 2024. Two new genus-group replacement names of Riodinidae from Asia (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Riodinidae). Zootaxa 5512(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.2.10. . Reference page.

Additional references

Espeland, M., Hall, J.P.W., DeVries, P.J., Lees, D.C., Mark Cornwall, Yu-Feng Hsu, Li-Wei Wu, Dana L. Campbell, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Shayla Salzman, Sophie Ruehr, David J. Lohman & Naomi E. Pierce 2025. Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 296–306. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006 Reference page.
Sugiyama, H. 1992. New Butterflies from Western China (I). Pallarge 1: 1–19. Reference page.