Cupido lacturnus polysperchinus ( Kheil, 1884 )

Šumpich, Jan & Weidenhoffer, Zdeněk, 2025, A review of the types of Lycaenidae species (Lepidoptera) described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil deposited in the collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65 (1), pp. 177-195 : 187

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scientific name	Cupido lacturnus polysperchinus ( Kheil, 1884 )
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Cupido lacturnus polysperchinus ( Kheil, 1884) ( Fig. 8)

Plebeius polysperchinus Kheil, 1884: 29 View in CoL , fig. 36 (original description). Everes polysperchinus : SElTZ (1912–1927): 924 (new combination; Fruhstorfer given wrongly instead of Kheil as the author of the name polysperchinus ).

Elkalyce lacturnus polysperchinus View in CoL : BECCALONl et al. (2003) (new combination).

Cupido lacturnus : SAVELLA (2024) (new synonymum,new combination).

Type material examined. SYNTYPES (8 JJ 3 ♀♀, NMPC):1 J, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // Typus [p, red label] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Plebeius polysperchinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label] // Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/170 [p]’ ( Fig. 8A).

7 JJ, ‘Nias [p] // Coll.N. Kheil [p] // ex coll. N.M.Kheil / Coll.National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Plebeius polysperchinus / Kheil,1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’. One specimen was dissected and has label containing ‘Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 24/082 [p]’.

1 ♀, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius polysperchinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’.

1 ♀, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // [small white label with illegible character] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius polysperchinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’ ( Fig. 8B).

1 ♀, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // [small yellow label without text] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius polysperchinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’.

Current status. Cupido lacturnus polysperchinus ( Kheil, 1884) , subspecies of Cupido lacturnus (Godart, [1824]) .

Distribution. Cupido lacturnus is widely distributed in the Oriental Region, Australia and also in southern Japan. Subspecies C. l. polysperchinus is hitherto known only from Nias.

Remarks. We accept subspecies status for the taxon C. l. polysperchinus according to BECCALONl et al. (2003), but in generic combination in Cupido Schrank, 1801 ( SAVELLA 2024, Z. Fric, pers. comm.).