Spitosa magdala magdala (Fruhstorfer, 1904)

Spitosa magdala magdala ♀ Up. Spitosa magdala magdala ♀ Un.
♀, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam.

ON : Sospita fylla magdala Fruhstorfer, 1904
OD : Berl. ent. Zeit. 48(4):284.
TL : Chiem-Hoa, "Central-Tonkin" [N.Vietnam].
Distribution : N. to C.Vietnam, Guangxi.
Spitosa magdala magdala map

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Abisara fylla magdala ; Fruhstorfer,1914 : 780. (Tonkin: Chiem Hoa)
Abisara magdala ; Vitalis,1919 : 235. (Tonkin)
Abisara fylla magdala ; Metaye,1957 : 92. (N)
Abisara fylla magdala ; Luong et al.,2004 : 8. (Cuc Phuong)
Abisara fylla magdala ; Callaghan,2009 : 76-77, figs.39,♀,♀(Un). (N: Pu Mat; Tam Dao; Tonkin) (in part)
Abisara fylla magdala ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 46. (N / C)


Specimens Examined

[ VIETNAM ]
Vinh Phuc : 1♀.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

The species was known as a subspecies of fylla or fylloides, and was elevated to species status by Sugiyama (2015). Further distributional research is needed.


Literature

Fruhstorfer, H.,1904 : Verzeichniss der in Tonkin, Annam und Siam gesammelten Nemeobiinae und Libythaeinae und Besprechung verwandter Formen.
Berl. ent. Z. 48(4):274-296. (Jan.1904)

Sugiyama, H.,2015 : Abisara fylla and simillar taxa fylloides and magdala ; taxonomic treatments.
in Notes on New and Interesting Sino-Himalayan Butterflies
Pallarge 9:29-53.

Espeland, M., Hall, P.W.H., DeVries, P.J., Lees, D.C., Cornwall, M., Hsu, Y-F., Wu, L-W., Campbell, D.L., Talavera, G., Vila, R., Salzman, Shayla, Ruehr, S., Lohman, D.J. & Pierce, N.E.,2023 :
Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Mol. Phylogenet Evol. 93(2015)296–306.

Huang, S-Y., Inayoshi, Y. & Espeland, M.,2024 : Two new genus-group replacement names of Riodinidae from Asia (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Riodinidae).
Zootaxa 5512 (2):295–300.


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