Spitosa fylloides

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Nemeobiinae
Tribus: Nemeobiini
Subtribe: Nemeobiina
Genus: Spitosa
Species: Spitosa fylloides

Spitosa fylloides (Moore, 1902)

Type locality: West China.

Typus: Holotype Male ♂ (BMNH ?)

• Sospita fylloides Moore, 1902: 81
• Sospita fylla fylloides Moore, 1902; Fruhstorfer, 1904: 284
• Abisara (Sospita) fylloides (Moore, 1902); e.g. Fruhstorfer, 1914: 780
• Abisara fylloides (Moore, 1902); e.g. Chou, 1994 etc; Espeland 2015: fig.2.
• Spitosa fylloides (Moore, 1902); Huang, Inayoshi & Espeland 2024: 299.

• Fruhstorfer, H. 1904. Verzeichnis der in Tonkin, Annam und Siam gesammelten Nemeobiinae und Libythaeinae und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 48(4): 274–296. BHL Archive Reference page. 
• Fruhstorfer, H., In Seitz, A., [1914]; Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 9, Erycinidae: 767-798. Stuttgart. Reference page. 
• Huang, S-Y., Inayoshi, Y. & Espeland, M. 2024. Two new genus-group replacement names of Riodinidae from Asia (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Riodinidae). Zootaxa 5512(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.2.10. . Reference page. 
• Moore, F., 1901–1903. Lepidoptera Indica Vol. 5. Rhopalocera: Nymphalidae (cont), Riodinidae, Papilionidae. 248pp., pls 379-466. Reference page. 

• Espeland, M., Hall, J.P.W., DeVries, P.J., Lees, D.C., Mark Cornwall, Yu-Feng Hsu, Li-Wei Wu, Dana L. Campbell, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Shayla Salzman, Sophie Ruehr, David J. Lohman & Naomi E. Pierce 2025. Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 296–306. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006 Reference page. 

See also:

• Sugiyama, H., 2015. Abisara fylla and simillar taxa fylloides and magdala; taxonomic treatments. in Notes on New and Interesting Sino-Himalayan Butterflies. Pallarge 9: 29-53.

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