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Taxonomy
Marumba echephron (Boisduval, 1875)
Nomenclature
Species:
Marumba echephron (Boisduval, 1875)
Usage:
valid
Reference:
Type data:
SYNTYPES 1♂ 1♀ Japan [CMNH].
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Marumba gaschkewitschii as an aberration by Rothschild, 1894, Novit. zool. 1: 98. The syntypes described by Boisduval are discoloured, which led Leech, 1898, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1898: 276, to erroneously suggest that echephron was probably a variety of Marumba dyras. Reinstated as a subspecies by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 272. Reinstated as a species by Eitschberger, 2012, Neue ent. Nachr. 68: 53.
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Synonyms: 6



