A review of the Erebia ligea-complex (Lepidoptera, Satyridae) from Eastern Asia

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  • DUBATOLOV V. V.
    Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences
  • KORSHUNOV Yu. P.
    Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences
  • GORBUNOV P. Yu.
    Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Uralian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences
  • KOSTERIN O. E.
    Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences
  • LVOVSKY A. L.
    Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya
  • 猪又 敏男

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  • 東アジアのクモマベニヒカゲ群の再検討
  • review of the Erebia ligea-complex Lepi

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It is shown that East Asia is inhabited by two similar species of the Erebia (ligea Linnaeus, 1758) group, well differing in the male genitalia structure as well as a number of the wing pattern details. They are E. ligea Linnaeus, 1758 and the second sympatric species, which has a priority name Erebia ajanensis Menetries, 1875, stat. nov., nec Effinger, 1907, nec Warren, 1936, nec Kurentzov, 1950, 1970, and on a preliminary review seems to be represented by three subspecies: the nominotypical, known from a type series from Ayan (the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Khabarovskii Krai Province, Russia), ssp. kosterini P. Gorbunov, Korshunov et Dubatolov, 1995 (=Erebia kosterini) in the southern Magadan Province, Russia, and ssp. arsenjevi Kurentzov, 1950 (=Erebia ligea arsenjevi) in more southerly regions of the Russian Far East, Korea, N and NE? China. The lectotypes of E. ajanensis, E. ligea arsenjevi (that is E. ajanensis arsenjevi) and of E. ligea koreana Matsumura, 1928 have been designated, as well as that of E. eumonia Menetries, 1859. The latter taxon was described on a heterogeneous series including both species, E. ligea and E. ajanensis. After lectotype designation the name eumonia became the valid one for an eastern subspecies of E. ligea, ranging from the Altai Mts (except for the north part) to the Magadan Province of Russia and Korea. All the subspecies of the true E. ligea described from this vast territory, except for E. ligea sachalinensis Matsumura, 1919, E. ligea rishirizana Matsumura, 1928 and E. ligea takanonis Matsumura, 1909, are considered as synonyms of E. ligea eumonia.

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  • Lepidoptera Science

    Lepidoptera Science 49 (3), 177-193, 1998

    THE LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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