Image of Hermeuptychia hermybius Grishin

Description:

Figures 1–9.Historical illustrations and specimens of Hermeuptychia sosybius, its original description, and neotype. 1–3 Illustration of Hermeuptychia sosybius syntype(s) by William Jones [1745–1818] from an unpublished book called the “Icones” (Vane-Wright 2010), currently in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK (Smith 1986). 1 shows the upper right quadrant of the plate LII from Volume 5 2, 3 are magnified cropped images off this plate showing dorsal and ventral aspects, respectively; ventral image (3) is rotated clockwise for the ease of comparison with specimens. The specimen with ventral side illustrated (3 and on the right in 1) is designated as the lectotype herein and is apparently lost 4–7 Two possible syntypes of Hermeuptychia sosybius from the Macleay collection (Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia). Neither specimen bears any labels 4, 6 show dorsal aspect and 5, 7 show ventral aspect 8 Original description of Hermeuptychia sosybius and its translations. Note that the Jones illustrations of Hermeuptychia sosybius are currently bound within Volume 5, and not 6 as per description 9 Neotype of Hermeuptychia sosybius (designated herein, also see Figs 10–11, genitalia Fig. 62p, DNA barcode tree Fig. 66b), in USNM collection, from USA: Georgia: Chatham Co., Savannah, 28-Jul-1958, leg. G. B. Small, genitalia NVG131102-61, DNA voucher 13386A07, GenBank accession for mitochondrial DNA COI barcode KJ025561. Scale bar refers to 9 only, other images are scaled approximately. Images 1–3 are copyright of Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK (used with permission), and images 4–7 are copyright of Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney, Australia and are photographed by Robert Blackburn (used with permission).