New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies

BACKGROUND: The family Lycaenidae is the second-largest group of butterflies which contains about one third of the known species of Papilionoidea. The genera Tajuria Moore, [1881] and Drupadia Moore, 1884 are both mainly found in the Oriental and Australian realms. In a very recent expedition to sou...

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Autores principales: Ge, Sixun, Jiang, Zhuoheng, Ren, Lili, Hu, Shaoji
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34177313
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69073
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author Ge, Sixun
Jiang, Zhuoheng
Ren, Lili
Hu, Shaoji
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Ren, Lili
Hu, Shaoji
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description BACKGROUND: The family Lycaenidae is the second-largest group of butterflies which contains about one third of the known species of Papilionoidea. The genera Tajuria Moore, [1881] and Drupadia Moore, 1884 are both mainly found in the Oriental and Australian realms. In a very recent expedition to south-west China in Xishuangbanna (Yunnan Province), specimens of T. sekii Saito, 2005 and D. scaeva (Hewitson, 1869) were collected for the first time, a new subspecies of the former: T. sekii sisyphus ssp. nov., is described and illustrated and the latter species comprises the first record of the genus Drupadia in China. NEW INFORMATION: A new subspecies of T. sekii Saito, 2005, T. sekii sisyphus ssp. nov., is described and illustrated. The species T. sekii Saito, 2005 and D. scaeva (Hewitson, 1869) are first recorded in China and the latter comprises the first record of the genus Drupadia in China. Relevant details are presented for the species.
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spelling pubmed-82221982021-06-24 New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies Ge, Sixun Jiang, Zhuoheng Ren, Lili Hu, Shaoji Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper BACKGROUND: The family Lycaenidae is the second-largest group of butterflies which contains about one third of the known species of Papilionoidea. The genera Tajuria Moore, [1881] and Drupadia Moore, 1884 are both mainly found in the Oriental and Australian realms. In a very recent expedition to south-west China in Xishuangbanna (Yunnan Province), specimens of T. sekii Saito, 2005 and D. scaeva (Hewitson, 1869) were collected for the first time, a new subspecies of the former: T. sekii sisyphus ssp. nov., is described and illustrated and the latter species comprises the first record of the genus Drupadia in China. NEW INFORMATION: A new subspecies of T. sekii Saito, 2005, T. sekii sisyphus ssp. nov., is described and illustrated. The species T. sekii Saito, 2005 and D. scaeva (Hewitson, 1869) are first recorded in China and the latter comprises the first record of the genus Drupadia in China. Relevant details are presented for the species. Pensoft Publishers 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8222198/ /pubmed/34177313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69073 Text en Sixun Ge, Zhuoheng Jiang, Lili Ren, Shaoji Hu https://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 Taxonomic Paper
Ge, Sixun
Jiang, Zhuoheng
Ren, Lili
Hu, Shaoji
New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title_full New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title_fullStr New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title_full_unstemmed New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title_short New records of two lycaenid butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in China, with the description of a new subspecies
title_sort new records of two lycaenid butterfly species (lepidoptera: lycaenidae) in china, with the description of a new subspecies
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34177313
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69073
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