Euphaea superba Kimmins, 1936

Euphaea superba Kimmins, 1936 View in CoL

Euphaea superba: Kimmins (1936) View in CoL , pp. 147–149, Figs 1–3 View FIGURE1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE3 [Holotype male (at the British Museum of Natural History) from ‘Tonkin’ (purchased from H. Fruhstorfer)]; van Tol & Rozendaal (1995), p. 100 [Male specimen (at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden) from ‘W. Tonkin, H. Fruhstorfer, ex coll. Förster’]; Do & Dang (2007), p. 130 [Included in species list as species without detailed locality data].

Materials examined. No material available to the authors.

Notes. A large sized, brownish winged species, somewhat resembling Euphaea opaca Selys, 1853 . According to M. Hämäläinen ( in litt.) there is also one male specimen of Euphaea superba from ‘Tonkin’ (without further details) at NRS Stockholm. The specimen originates from Coll. F. Ris, and includes his identification label ‘ Euphaea spec. nov. ’ It is possible that this specimen was also purchased from Hans Fruhstorfer. Obviously this is a very rare species in northern Vietnam. According to information received from Haomiao Zhang and M. Hämäläinen ( in litt.), in China Euphaea superba occurs in Guangxi and Guizhou; the published E. superba records from Guangdong and Hong Kong (cf. Wilson & Zaifu 2007) refer to E. opaca .