Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943

Chiba, Hideyuki, Tsukiyama, Hiroshi, Liang, Jia-Yuan, Wang, Shou-Ming, Shen, Zong-Yu & Hsu, Yu-Feng, 2020, The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 4801 (2), pp. 280-290 : 281

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332717
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scientific name	Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943
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Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943 View in CoL

Zephyrus 9(3): 170.

Labels : “ Taiwan Musha (=Wushe, in Chinese Character)/ 22-VI-1941 /S MURAYAMA,” “ Ampittia /matudai/ HOLOTYPE.”

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Murayama (1943), and the specimen was retrieved in LBM ( Figs. 1–3 View FIGURES 1–18 ; Dried Insect Database Reg. no. 1500022019).

Additional specimens of the species were not reported until Murayama (1955) found a pair in Sugitani’s collection deposited at Kyushu University. HC tried to locate those specimens, but they were removed from the collection and no record was kept as to who loaned or took them. Subsequent records of matudai ( Lin 1994, Lin & Su 2013) turned out to be either A. inachus (Ménétriés, 1858) ( Hsu et al. 2019) or A. bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1968 ( Hsu 2013, Sugisaka 2018). YFH undertook investigations at the type locality of the taxon every year since 1982 searching for the species but in vain. The vicinity of the area was covered with decent vegetation before the end of World War II but was later severely deforested and disturbed due to horticultural practice.

We regard matudai as a valid specific name in the genus Aeromachus de Nicéville, 1890 following the treatment in Chiba et al. (1992) and Hsu et al. (2019). Huang (2009) considered that the taxon should be treated as a subspecies of A. jesta (Evans, 1939) . This point of view awaits further evaluation.

References

Chiba, H., Hsu, Y. F. & Shirozu, T. (1992) Hesperiidae. In: Heppner, J. N. & Inoue, H. (Eds.), Lepidoptera of Taiwan. Vol. 1. Part 2. Checklist. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Gainesville, pp. 130 - 132.

Hsu Y. F., Chiba, H., Tsukiyama, H., Liang, J. Y. & Huang, C. W. (2019) Butterfly Fauna of Taiwan. Vol. III. Hesperiidae. Forest Bureau, C. O. A., Taipei, 364 pp.

Hsu, Y. F. (2013) The Butterflies of Taiwan. Vol. 1. Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae. Morning Star Publishing Inc., Taichung, 397 pp. [in Chinese]

Huang, H. (2009) Systematic and Taxonomic Study on the tribe Aeromachini Tutt (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China. Master thesis. Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 175 pp.

Lin, C. C. (1994) The Butterflies and Nature of Taiwan. Three Pigs Internatinonal Ltd, Taipei, 162 pp.

Lin, C. C. & Su, J. P. (2013) The Photographic Book of all Butterflies in Taiwan. Green World, Yilan, 420 pp.

Murayama, S. (1943) Uber einige Lycaeniden und Hesperiiden von Formosa. Zephyrus, 9 (3), 170 - 175. [in Japanese]

Murayama, S. (1955) New or little known Rhopalocera from China and Korea. Tyo to Ga, 6 (1), 1 - 4.

Murayama, S. & Shimonoya, T. (1968) A contribution to taxonomy of the Formosan butterflies, with descriptions of 1 new species, 1 new race, 1 unrecorded species, and 11 new aberrant forms. New Entomologist, 17 (1), 1 - 16. [in Japanese]

Sugisaka, Y. (2018) On the significant differences of macula mutation in Taiwan species type Aeromachus bandaishanus and A. matudai. Yadoriga, 259, 19 - 24. [in Japanese]

Figures

FIGURES 1–18. 1–3. Ampittia matudai Murayama, 1943, holotype; 4–6. Erynnis montanus neomontanus Murayama & Yoshisaka, 1959, holotype; 7–9. Ochlodes siva yuchingkina Murayama & Shimonoya, 1962, holotype; 10–12. Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1968, holotype; 13–15. Pseudocoladenia pinsbukana Shimonoya & Murayama, 1976, holotype; 16–18. Polytremis zina taiwana Murayama, 1981, holotype. Scale bar = 1 cm.