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Polyura inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved
Abstract. The most distinctive species of Polyura, P. inopinatus, described from a single specimen said to be from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been a great mystery since it was first described by Röber, in 1940. The holotype, originally illustrated in monochrome in the journal Deutsche Entomologi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.26458 |
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description | Abstract. The most distinctive species of Polyura, P. inopinatus, described from a single specimen said to be from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been a great mystery since it was first described by Röber, in 1940. The holotype, originally illustrated in monochrome in the journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris, was lost very soon after it was described, almost certainly destroyed during allied bombing of Dresden in the 1940s. No other specimen was known for almost eight decades. We suggest that the type locality (Sulawesi) is incorrect and that the holotype was more likely to have been collected in the Baining Mountains, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We report the recent discovery of several male P. inopinatus from West New Britain Province, and describe and illustrate specimens. A neotype is designated. |
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spelling | pubmed-60534722018-07-20 Polyura inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved Müller, Chris J. Tennent, W. John Zookeys Review Article Abstract. The most distinctive species of Polyura, P. inopinatus, described from a single specimen said to be from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been a great mystery since it was first described by Röber, in 1940. The holotype, originally illustrated in monochrome in the journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris, was lost very soon after it was described, almost certainly destroyed during allied bombing of Dresden in the 1940s. No other specimen was known for almost eight decades. We suggest that the type locality (Sulawesi) is incorrect and that the holotype was more likely to have been collected in the Baining Mountains, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We report the recent discovery of several male P. inopinatus from West New Britain Province, and describe and illustrate specimens. A neotype is designated. Pensoft Publishers 2018-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6053472/ /pubmed/30034260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.26458 Text en Chris J. Müller, W. John Tennent http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Müller, Chris J. Tennent, W. John Polyura inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
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Polyura
inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
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Polyura
inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
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Polyura
inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
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Polyura
inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
title_short |
Polyura
inopinatus Röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
title_sort | polyura
inopinatus röber, 1940; a remarkable butterfly mystery resolved |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.26458 |
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