Telicota palmarum hainanum Sonan, 1938

Trans. nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 28: 370, fig. 2.

Labels: “ Telicota / palmarum / hainanum Sonan/ DET. J. SONAN,” “ palmarum,” “ hainana/ Sonan,” “Xuechanglu [In Chinese]/ [Meiji] 41 [=1908] 4 22,” “ Holo/ Type [in red].”

Sonan (1938a) specified a male [actually female] specimen when he described Telicota palmarum hainanum Sonan, thus it represents the holotype. This holotype was located in TARI (Fig. 34–36), and the specimen conforms to the original description (p. 370) and associated figure (fig. 2) given by Sonan (1938). Evans (1949) listed hainanum as a synonym of Cephrenes chrysozona oceanica (Mabille, 1904) . Maruyama (1991) pointed out that the correct name for this taxon should be Cephrenes acalle oceanica, and his treatment has been followed by de Jong & Treadaway (1993). Consequently the name hainanum Sonan, 1938 is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Cephrenes acalle oceanica (Mabille, 1904) in the present study.