Aemona infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2008

Monastyrskii, Alexander L. & Lien, Vu Van, 2021, New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 5048 (4), pp. 486-510 : 502

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6A450390-1C69-42CD-9682-2A766CB31338

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5570231

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/36019464-FFEA-B617-B7F2-FD5DFB8CFBA6

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scientific name

Aemona infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2008
status

stat. nov.

Aemona infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2008 stat. rev.

( Figs. 11A, B View FIGURE 11 )

Aemona infiscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2008 was originally described as a subspecies of A. tonkinensis Rothschild, 1916 . The status of the latter taxon was established by Devyatkin & Monastyrskii (2008) showing that A. amathusia (Hewitson, 1868) View in CoL and A. tonkinensis are separate species. Aemona infuscata is smaller than A. tonkinensis . The hindwings are ochreous brown and darker than the forewings with faint submarginal lunules. The original description does not describe genitalia. However, since the description of infuscata , we have been able to examine the genitalia of many specimens and find that the phallus has a conspicuous, sclerotised rib, the centre of which bears a few spines ( Figure 11A, B View FIGURE 11 ). In A. infuscata , only the distal margin of the clasper’s tip is covered by spines, while in A. tonkinensis spines cover around half of tip. This difference, in concert with differences in size and wing colouration demonstrate that infuscata should be elevated to the species level.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Aemona

Loc

Aemona infuscata Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2008

Monastyrskii, Alexander L. & Lien, Vu Van 2021
2021
Loc

Aemona infiscata

Devyatkin & Monastyrskii 2008
2008
Loc

A. tonkinensis

Rothschild 1916
1916
Loc

A. tonkinensis

Rothschild 1916
1916
Loc

A. tonkinensis

Rothschild 1916
1916
Loc

A. tonkinensis

Rothschild 1916
1916
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