Potanthus flavus flavus (Murray, 1875)

Xue, G. X., 2019, To the knowledge of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of Henan Province, China: new records and corrigenda, Far Eastern Entomologist 374, pp. 14-20 : 16-17

Potanthus flavus flavus (Murray, 1875)

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Henan Province, Tongbai County, Shuiliandong,

3.VIII 2011, 2♂ (Y. Qiao & G.X. Xue leg.); Tongbai County, Huaiyuan Town, 4.VIII 2011,

1♂ (Y. Qiao & G.X. Xue leg.).

DISTRIBUTION. China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, S Henan, Shandong,

Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Yunnan, W Sichuan), Russian Far East

(Primorskii krai), Japan, Korea.

NOTES. The diagnostic character of the male genitalia of Potanthus flavus is that the uncus is tapered in dorsal view and constricted before the tip, with the end shallowly excavated between sharply angled lateral shoulders (Huang, 2003: 39, figs 57–58). Two subspecies have been recognized, distributed from Russian Far East, NE China to Korean Peninsula, through the central and southern Chinese mainland to India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia (according to Evans, 1949: 381; Tuzov et al., 1997: 131; Wang, 1999: 289; Huang, 2003: 40).

Figures

Figs. 1–6. New recorded to Henan Province butterflies. 1 – Ampittia discorides etura, ♂;