Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5737 No. 4: 29 Dec. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-12-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.8
Page range: 581-589
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 5

Two new species of the genus Prusiana Evans from south and southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Baorini)

702; 2-9-19; Shiranuhi; Omuta-shi; Fukuoka; 836-0843 Japan
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; South China Agricultural University; Guangzhou 510642; China
Museum Zoologi Bogor; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; Research Organization for Life Sciences and Environment; National Research and Innovation Agency; Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46; Cibinong; Bogor 16911; Indonesia
B. P. Bishop Museum; 1525 Bernice Street; Honolulu; HI 96817-0916; USA
Lepidoptera DNA sequencing endemism genitalia species richness taxonomy type species

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Prusiana Evans, 1937 in the family Hesperiidae are described from the main island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. One is a medium sized skipper from a high mountain in south Sulawesi, viz. Prusiana shiranuhi Suefuji sp. nov., which was recognized based on molecular and morphological evidence. This new species can be easily distinguished from other Prusiana species by its dark brown ground color and the reduced discal spots on the forewing. The other one, Prusiana iphicles Suefuji sp. nov. is smaller in size and resembles P. hercules and can only be separated from the latter by its wing size, distribution, and the male genitalia. Now, Sulawesi is inhabited by all the five species of the genus, of which three are endemic.

 

References

  1. Chiba, H. (2017) Nots on Sulawesian skippers. The Nature and Insects, 52, 18–21. [in Japanese]
  2. de Jong, R. & Treadaway, C.G. (2008) Butterflies of the world. Part 29. Hesperiidae 1. Hesperiidae of the Philippine Islands. Goecke & Evers, inh., Erich Bauer, Halle, 15 pp., 39 pls.
  3. Fa, J.E. & Lindburg, D.G. (Eds.) (1996) Evolution and Ecology of Macaque Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, S616 pp.
  4. Fan, X., Chiba, H., Huang, Z., Fei, W., Wang, M. & Sáfián, S. (2016) Clarification of the Phylogenetic Framework of the Tribe Baorini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) Inferred from Multiple Gene Sequences. PLoS ONE, 11 (7), e0156861. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156861
  5. Kawazoé, A. & Wakabayashi, M. (1976) Colored Illustrations of the Butterflies of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka, 423 pp., 72 pls. [in Japanese]
  6. Klots, A.B. (1970) Lepidoptera. In: Tuxen, S.L. (Ed.), Taxonomist’s Glossary of Genitalia of Insects. 2nd Enlarger Edition. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, pp. 359.
  7. Lanfear, R., Frandsen, P.B., Wright, A.M., Senfeld, T. & Calcott, B. (2017) PartitionFinder 2: new methods for selecting partitioned models of evolution for molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34 (3), 772–773. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw260
  8. Maruyama, K. & Otsuka, K. (1991) Butterflies of Borneo. Vol. 2. No. 2. Hesperiidae. Tobishima Co., Tokyo, ⅻ + 83 pp., 39 pls. [in Japanese]
  9. Miller, M.A., Pfeiffer, W. & Schwartz, T. (2010) Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for Inference of Large Phylogenetic Trees. In: SC10 Workshop on Gateway Computing Environments (GCE10). IEEE, New Orleans, Louisiana. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5676129 (accessed 1 December 2025) https://doi.org/10.1109/GCE.2010.5676129
  10. Minh, B.Q., Nguyen, M.A.T. & von Haeseler, A. (2013) Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30 (5), 1188–1195. [PubMed PMID: WOS:000318165700018] https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst024
  11. Nguyen, L-T., Schmidt, H.A., von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. (2015) IQ-TREE: a fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum-likelihood phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32, 268–274. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu300
  12. Ronquist, F., Teslenko, M., van der Mark, P., Ayres, D.L., Darling, A., Höhna, S., Larget, B., Liu, L., Suchard, M.A. & Huelsenbeck, J.P. (2012) MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space. Systematic Biology, 61 (3), 539–542. [PubMed PMID: WOS:000303336200013] https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/sys029
  13. Schwarz, G. (1978) Estimating the dimension of a model. The Annals of Statistics, 6 (2), 461–464. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344136
  14. Sugimoto, S. (2021) Collection record of the butterflies of South East Sulawesi (Indonesia). Butterflies, 86, 26–52. [in Japanese]
  15. Trifinopoulos, J., Nguyen, L-T., von Haeseler, A. & Minh, B.Q. (2016) Nucleic Acids Research, 44 (W1), W232–W235. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw256
  16. Vane-Wright, R.I. & de Jong, R. (2003) The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 343, 1–267, 16 pls.
  17. Wallace, A.R. (1869) The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Macmillan and Co., London, 527 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.131886
  18. Warren, A.D., Ogawa, J.R. & Brower, A.V.Z. (2009) Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data. Systematic Entomology, 34, 467–523. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00463.x

How to Cite

Suefuji, S., Fan, X., Peggie, D. & Chiba, H. (2025) Two new species of the genus Prusiana Evans from south and southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Baorini). Zootaxa, 5737 (4), 581–589. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.8