The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Chiba, Hideyuki, Tsukiyama, Hiroshi, Liang, Jia-Yuan, Wang, Shou-Ming, Shen, Zong-Yu, Hsu, Yu-Feng (2020): The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 4801 (2): 280-290, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.4
Abstract
Fifteen holotypes of Asian Hesperiidae taxa described by Shu-iti Murayama were examined, and their taxonomic status is discussed. We confirm that five are valid names while the rest are synonyms as indicated partially by previous authors. Valid species-level names are Aeromachus matudai (Murayama), Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, Coladenia pinsbukana (Shimonoya & Murayama), and Sebastonyma suthepiana Murayama & Kimura. Valid subspecieslevel name is Ochlodes yuchingkina Murayama & Shimonoya. In order to settle the taxonomic status of Pedesta masuriensis cuneomaculata Murayama, masuriensis and tali were studied morphologically and molecularly. As a result, we consider that masuriensis and tali are two different species and treat cuneomaculata as a junior subjective synonym of tali.