Polycaena chauchowensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda 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: Polycaena chauchowensis

Name

Polycaena chauchowensis (Mell, 1923: 159)

• Type locality: Bergwaldgebiete bei Chauchow in Westjünnan um 2600 m Seehöhe (area around Fengyi town (= Zhaozhou = Chauchow), Dali City, west Yunnan Province, southwest China)
• Lectotype: ZMB, ♂, 5. IX. (19)14.

Synonymy

• Hipporion chauchowensis Mell, 1923: 159 [org. comb.]
  • Polycaena chauchowensis (Mell) — Forster 1951: 62, pl. 4, fig. 5
• Polycaena chauchowensis pallidior Forster 1951: 62 [synonym in Huang et al., 2024]

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: p. 159]
• 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: p. 594]

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.