Lobocla kodairai Sonan, 1936

Zephyrus 6:209.

Labels (the slash denotes new line): “ Lobocla / kodairai Sonan / DET. J. SONAN,” “Hori/ 27 VII 1934 / K. Kodaira,” “ No. 49,” “ Type [in red].”

Only one female specimen (Fig. 1–2) was included in Sonan’s (1936) original description of this taxon. The material bearing the type label (Fig. 3) matches the original description. Evans (1949) treated kodairai as a synonym of Lobocla bifasciata (Bremer & Grey, 1853), while Shirôzu (1944, 1960) retained the name kodairai as a subspecific name. Lobocla bifasciata shows tremendous variation especially in male genitalia (Evans 1949). There is no doubt that this taxon belongs to bifasciata or its complex because its male genitalia (Shirôzu 1960) agree with those of bifasciata, but in order to judge whether the Taiwanese taxon is distinct or not, further investigation is required. Evans (1949) suspected that kodairai might be represented by a stray specimen, evidently an erroneous view as this taxon has been shown to be a montane skipper native to the island (Shirôzu 1960; Yamanaka 1980). We tentatively follow Shirôzu’s (1944, 1960) treatment, regarding kodairai Sonan, 1936 as a subspecific name of Lobocla bifasciata (Bremer & Grey, 1853) .