Acytolepis puspa puspinus ( 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2025.014
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scientific name	Acytolepis puspa puspinus ( Kheil, 1884 )
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Acytolepis puspa puspinus ( Kheil, 1884) View in CoL

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Plebeius puspinus Kheil, 1884: 30 View in CoL , figs 37–39 (original description).

Cyaniris puspinus : FRUHSTORÞER (1910): 287 (new combination).

Lycaenopsis puspa puspinus : FRUHSTORÞER (1917b): 26 (new combination).

Acytolepis puspa puspinus : ELlOT & KAWAZOḖ (1983): 179 (new combination).

Acytolepis puspa puspinus : SAVELLA (2024) (taxonomic review).

Type material examined. SYNTYPES (8 JJ 8 ♀♀, NMPC): 1 J, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // Typus [p, red label] // Orig. [p, pink label] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype J / Plebeius puspinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label] // Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/165 [p]’ ( Fig. 9A).

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

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

1 ♀, ‘Nias [p] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // Typus [p, red label] // Orig. [p, pink label] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius puspinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label] // Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/169 [p]’ ( Fig. 9B).

7 ♀♀, ‘Nias [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius puspinus / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’. One female has very small green label without text.

Current status. Acytolepis puspa puspinus ( Kheil, 1884) View in CoL , subspecies of Acytolepis puspa (Horsfield, [1828]) .

Distribution. Acytolepis puspa is widely distributed in Southeast Asia (LEPlÞORUM 2024); the occurrence of A. p. puspinus has been reported only from the island of Nias so far (FRUHSTORÞER 1917b).

Subfamily Theclinae Swainson, 1831

Tribe Hypolycaenini Swinhoe, 1910