ON : Thoressa submacula rubella Devyatkin,1996 OD : Atalanta 27(3/4):602-603, col.pl.10, figs.9(HT,♂), 10(HT,♂Un). TL : 40km SE. Moc-Chau, N.Vietnam. (♂,in coll. V.K.Tuzov) Distribution : N.Vietnam, S.Guangxi.

Holotype ♂, 7-15.Apr.1995. 20°50´N, 104°50´E, 40km SE.Moc-Chau, 1400m, N.Vietnam. (in coll. V.K.Tuzov)

[ VIETNAM ]
Thoressa submacula ; Evans,1949 : 254. (Tonkin)
Thoressa submacula submacula ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 165. (Ba Be; Cuc Phuong)
Thoressa submacula rubella ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,1999 : 165. (N: Hoa Binh)
Thoressa submacula ; Ikeda et al.,2001b : 63, figs.3:1,♂,2,♂(Un),5:21(♂genitalia). (Cuc Phuong)
Thoressa submacula submacula ; Luong et al.,2004 : 14, 87, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Cuc Phuong)
Thoressa submacula submacula ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 77. (N)
Thoressa submacula rubella ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 77. (N: Hoa Binh)
Pedesta rubella ; Li et al.,2020 : 218-220, fig.2,a(HT,♂),b(HT,♂Un),c(label),d-f(♂genitalia), fig.21a-k(♂genitalia). (N: Moc-Chau; Cuc Phuong; Ba Be; Huu Lien)

Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Devyatkin, A.L.,1996 : New Hesperiidae from North Vietnam, with the description of a new genus (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)
Atalanta 27(3/4):695-604, 684-685 (pl.10).

Li, M., Monastyrkii [sic], A.L., Kolesnichenko, K.A., Liu, Z., Xue, G, Long J. and Tang, H.,2020 :
Morphological and molecular characters reveal the status of Pedesta rubella (Devyatkin, 1996) stat. n. and P. similissima (Devyatkin, 2002) syn. n. (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)
Zootaxa 4743(2):217–231.

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