Augiades bouddha niitakana Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:213.

Labels: “ Augiades / bouddha / niitakana Sonan/ DET. J. SONAN,” “ 800- SUIGEN/ 24 VII 1930 / Col. J. Sonan,” “ No. 60,” “ Type [in red].”

A male specimen was designated as the holotype by Sonan (1936), and this holotype was retrieved in TARI (Fig. 16–18). Evans (1949) treated this taxon as a subspecies of Ochlodes siva Moore, 1878, and this treatment was followed by Bridges (1983). Shirôzu (1960), however, considered this taxon a synonym of Augiades sylvanus var. formosana Matsumura, 1919, which was recognized to represent a valid subspecies of Ochlodes subhyalina (Bremer & Grey, 1853) by Evans (1949). Based on the characteristics of male genitalia, Chiba and Tsukiyama (1996) subsequently raised formosana to species status, and considered it a species endemic to Taiwan. Hsu et al. (2006), however, found that formosana Matsumura, 1919 is actually a junior subjective synonym of Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Grey, 1853), so niitakana Sonan, 1936 should be resurrected in the combination Ochlodes niitakanus . Shirôzu (1960) claimed that the allotype female of niitakana was probably a different species. His statement seems to be groundless. We examined the female paratype of niitakana (Fig. 19–21) and confirmed that it was conspecific with the male holotype.