Spitosa magdala

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Nemeobiinae
Tribus: Nemeobiini
Subtribe: Nemeobiina
Genus: Spitosa
Species:
Subspecies: S. m. assimilis – S. m. magdala

Spitosa magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904)

Type locality: Vietnam, "Central Tonkin, Chiem-Hoa"

Typus: Syntypes Male ♂, 4 Females ♀ "In Collection of H. Fruhstorfer" NHML

• Sospita fylla magdala Fruhstorfer, 1904: 284
• Sospita magdala Fruhstorfer, 1904; Fruhstorfer, 1914: 780 (ambiguous if species or subspecies rank)
• Abisara magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904); Vitalis, 1919: 235.
• Abisara fylloides magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904); e.g. Chou, 1994; D'Abrera, 1982-1986 etc.
• Abisara fylla magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904); e.g. Callaghan, 2009: 64, 76, Fig. 39.
• Spitosa magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904); Huang, Inayoshi & Espeland 2024: 299.

• Callaghan, C.J., 2009. The riodinid butterflies of North Vietnam. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 63 (2): 61–82. PDF Reference page. 
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1904. Verzeichnis der in Tonkin, Annam und Siam gesammelten Nemeobiinae und Libythaeinae und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 48(4): 274–296. BHL Archive Reference page. 
• Fruhstorfer, H., In Seitz, A., [1914]; Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 9, Erycinidae: 767-798. Stuttgart. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Moore, F., 1901–1903. Lepidoptera Indica Vol. 5. Rhopalocera: Nymphalidae (cont), Riodinidae, Papilionidae. 248pp., pls 379-466. Reference page. 

• 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. 

See also:

• Sugiyama, H., 2015. Abisara fylla and simillar taxa fylloides and magdala; taxonomic treatments. in Notes on New and Interesting Sino-Himalayan Butterflies. Pallarge 9: 29-53.

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