Polycaena chauchowensis

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: Polycaena
Species:

Name

Polycaena chauchowensis (Mell, 1923)

Type locality: China, Yunnan ("Bergwaldgebiete bei Chauchow in Westjünnan um 2600 m Seehöhe" (area around Fengyi town (= Zhaozhou = Chauchow), Dali City, west Yunnan Province, southwest China)

Typus: Lectotype: Male ♂, ZMB, 05.IX.(19)14.

Synonymy

Hipporion chauchowensis Mell, 1923: 159. Original combination
Polycaena chauchowensis (Mell, 1923); Forster 1951: 62, pl. 4, fig. 5; Huang et al., 2024: 594, Figs. 11–18, 28, 32, 33.
Polycaena chauchowensis pallidior Forster 1951: 62 [synonym in Huang et al., 2024: 594]

Native distribution areas

Southwestern China (confined to northern and northwestern Yunnan).

References

Primary references

Mell, R. 1923. Noch unbeschriebene Lepidopteren aus Südchina. II. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift: 153–160. BHL Reference page. [original description]
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. [syn. nov., lectotype, notes]

Additional references

Huang, H. & Li, Y-F. 2016. Notes on the genus Polycaena Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) with descriptions of two new species from China. Zootaxa 4105(6): 575–590. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.4. Reference page.