♂, Ha Giang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)		♀, Ha Giang, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Aphnaeus syama sepulveda Fruhstorfer, 1912 OD : Berl. ent. Z. 56(3/4): 217. TL : 'West- und Central-China'. Distribution : N.Vietnam, China, Hainan, Hong Kong. ● ssp.peguanus ● ssp.sepulveda ● ssp.terana

Aphnaeus syama latipicta Fruhstorfer, 1912; Berl. ent. Z. 56(3/4): 217; TL: "Chiem Hoa, Tonkin" [Chiem Hoa, Tuyen Quang, N.Vietnam].

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Aphnaeus syama: Lemée,1950 : 20. (Hagiang)
Aphnaeus syama latipicta: Seitz,1923 : 936. (Tonkin)
Aphnaeus syama latipicta: Metaye,1957 : 89. (N)
Cigaritis syama latipicta: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 56. (N: Tuyen Quang; Ha Giang; Bac Can)

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Ha Giang : 1♂ 1♀.

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I consider the taxon latipicta to be a synonym of sepulveda. This taxon is only found in northern Vietnam, near Chinese border.

Fruhstorfer, H, 1912. Uebersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors.
Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 56(3/4): 197–272, 4 figs. (Apr.1912)

Seitz, A, 1923. 8. Familie: Lycaenidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde.
Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 9: 929–936. (23.May.1923)

Zhang, J, Cong, Q, Shen, J, Song, L. & Grishin, N.V, 2023. Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics.
The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 11(3): 1–93.

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