Prosotas nora kupu ( 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 : 186

Prosotas nora kupu ( Kheil, 1884)

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Plebeius kupu Kheil, 1884: 29 , fig. 34 (original description). Nacaduba nora kupu : FRUHSTORÞER (1916b): 117 (new status). Prosotas nora kupu : TlTE (1963): 92 (new combination).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀ ( NMPC), ‘Typo [p, pink label] // Nias [p] // Typus [p, red label] // Coll. N. Kheil [p] // Photo / Gen. prep. / J. Šumpich / 22/169 [p] // ex coll. N. M. Kheil / Coll. National / Museum Prague [p] // Syntype ♀ / Plebeius kupu / Kheil, 1884 / labelled by J. Šumpich / & Z. Weidenhoffer, 2025 [p, red label]’ ( Fig. 7A).

Current status. Prosotas nora kupu ( Kheil, 1884) , subspecies of Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) .

Distribution. Prosotas nora is widely distributed in Southeast Asia, from Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, also in Australia ( BRABY 2004, LEPlÞORUM 2024). The known distribution of the subspecies P.n. kupu to date is restricted to the island of Nias.

Remarks. TlTE (1963) in his work on this species noted: ‘Type? A specimen from the Fruhstorfer collection in the B.M. (N.H.) is labelled in Fruhstorfer’s writing as the type’, but the description of the species was based on a single specimen (KHElL 1884) and the holotype is deposited in the NMPC.

The male genitalia of several subspecies of P. nora were depicted by FRUHSTORÞER (1916b) and CORBET & PENDLE- BURY (1992) but not the female genitalia. The genitalia of the subspecies P. n. kupu have not yet been depicted. The holotype of P. nora kupu is a female. Comparisons with female genitalia of related taxa could not be made because comparative material was not available.According to FRUH- STORÞER (1916b), the subspecies P. n. kupu differs from the related subspecies P. n. ardates (Moore, [1875]) only in its lighter colour. For the moment, we accept the taxonomic status of the subspecies but we cannot exclude that P.n. kupu may be synonymous with some other subspecies of P. nora .