Pelopidas sinensis Mabille, 1877


ON : Gegenes sinensis Mabille, 1877
OD : Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 2:232.
TL : 'Chine septentrionale' [Shanghai, China].
Distribution : NW.India, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Myanmar (S.Shan States), Laos, Vietnam, China, Taiwan.
Pelopidas sinensis map


Synonyms

Chapra prominens Moore, 1882 : Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882(1):261-262. TL. 'N.W.Himalaya: Tonse valley [Tons valley, Uttarakhand]; Gurwhal, [Uttarakhand]; Kussowlee [Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh]; Kangra, [Himachal Pradesh]' [Gurwhal, Uttarakhand, NW.India]. (NHML)
Pamphila similis Leech, 1890 : Entomologist 23:48. TL. "Chang Yang" [Changyang, Hubei]. (NHML) (homonym)


Records taken from Literature

[ LAOS ]
Pelopidas sinensis ; Masui & Uehara,1999 : 19,22, figs.35,♂,♂(Un). (Nong Het)
Pelopidas sinensis ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 225, pl.143, fig.♂. (Nong Het)
Pelopidas sinensis ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 60.

[ VIETNAM ]
Parnara sinensis ; Lemée,1950 : 25. (Hagiang)
Pelopidas sinensis ; Devyatkin,2012 : 154. (N: Ha Giang)
Pelopidas sinensis ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 84. (N: Ha Giang)


Notes
Literature

Mabille, P.,1877 : Catalogue des Lepidopteres du Congo.
Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 2:214-240.

Moore, F.,1882 : List of the Lepidoptera coleected by the Rev.J.H.Hocking chiefly in the Kangra District., N.W.Himalaya;
with Descriptions of new Genera and Species.
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882(1):234-263, pls.11,12.

Leech, J.H.,1890 : New species of lepidoptera from China.
Entomologist 23:26-50.

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.


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