Pedesta fusca fusca (Elwes, 1893)


ON : Halpe fusca Elwes, 1893
OD : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1892(4): 653, pl.43, fig.1,♂,♂(Un).
TL : "Bernardmyo" [Bernardmyo, Thabeikkyin Dist., Mandalay Region, Myanmar].(NHML)
Distribution : Manipur, Nagaland, S.E.Tibet, Myanmar, N.W.Yunnan (Dulong Valley), Laos, Vietnam.
Pedesta fusca fusca map


Records taken from Literature

[ LAOS ]
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 223, pl.137, fig.♂(Un). (Xam Neua)
Thoressa fusca fusca ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 58.

[ VIETNAM ]
Thoressa fusca ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,2002 : 147. (Hoang Lien; Ngoc Linh)
Thoressa fusca ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 77. (N: Lao Cai / C: Kon Thum)
Thoressa fusca ; Saito & Vu,2020a : 179. (Ha Giang: Dong Van)


Notes

As noted under Pedesta thandaunga, all previous records of Pedesta fusca fusca in Thailand were actually misidentifications of Pedesta thandaunga (Evans, 1926). Consequently, there are no records of this species from Thailand. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.


Literature

Elwes, H.J.,1893 : On butterflies collected by Mr. W.Doherty in the Naga and Karen Hills and Perak, Part.2.
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1892(4): 617-664, pls.43,44.

Evans, W.H.,1949 : A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History).
i-xix + 1-502, pls.1-35. London.

Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L.,2019 :
A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography.
Syst. Entomol. 44: 163–178.

Cao, C., H.S., Xu, Y., Wu, H., Chen, T., Wang, M., Da,W. & Fan, X.,2019 :
New records and their associated DNA barcodes of the butterfly family Hesperiidae in Tibet, China.
Zootaxa 4674(4): 426–438.

Huang, H.,2019 : New or little known butterflies from China - 3 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae).
Neue ent. Nachr. 78: 203-255.


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