Chonala Moore 1893
Creators: name: Guo, Liang
name: Huang, Si-Yao
name: Wang, Min
name: Ma, Fang-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Chonala

description: Key to species and subspecies of Chonala (mainly adapted from Lang & Bozano, 2016 with slight modification)
1 Hindwing upperside with postdiscal ocelli absent............................................................ 2
- Hindwing upperside with postdiscal ocelli more or less present................................................. 7
2 Forewing upperside with discal band evenly curved.......................................................... 3
- Forewing upperside with discal band irregularly sinuous and strongly protruding towards the termen in space 4.......... 5
3 Forewing upperside with discal band very broad and continuous................................................ 4
- Forewing upperside with discal band very narrow and broken by veins................................. C. episcopalis
4 Forewing discal band pure white; forewing underside discal area dull brown............................... C. masoni
- Forewing discal band orange; forewing underside discal area reddish brown.............................. C. huertasae
5 Forewing upperside with discal band continuous............................................................ 6
- Forewing upperside with discal band broken in space 3....................................... C. praeusta praeusta
6 Forewing upperside with discal band narrower and orange.................................... C. praeusta burmana
- Forewing upperside with discal band much broader and creamy yellow................................. C. yunnana
7 Hindwing upperside with postdiscal ocelli vestigial; forewing underside with discal band broken and absent in space 3..... 8
- Hindwing upperside with postdiscal ocelli developed; forewing underside with discal band continuous and present in space 3.............................................................................................. C. irene
8 On both sides of forewing, subapical spot in space 4 white in color and distinctly separated from the postdiscal band; hindwing underside with subbasal line continuously extending from the anterior edge to the posterior edge............... C. miyatai
- On both sides of forewing, subapical spot in space 4 orange in color and fused with the postdiscal band as a whole; hindwing underside with subbasal line suddenly shifting towards the termen in space 1b..................................... 9
9 On underside of forewing the rectangular patch in space 2 is well separated from the basal diffused patch.............. 10
- On underside of forewing the rectangular patch in space 2 has its inner half nearly fused with the large diffused patch.................................................................................................... C. houae
10 On forewing upperside the costal spot is less developed, the patch in space 2 is diffused and blur.......... C. laurae laurae
- On forewing upperside the costal spot is well developed and more prominent, the patch in space 2 is more sharply defined and larger.......................................................................... C. laurae wuyishana ssp. n.
description: Published as part of Guo, Liang, Huang, Si-Yao, Wang, Min & Ma, Fang-Zhou, 2023, Description of a new subspecies of Chonala laurae Bozano, 1999 from Southeastern China (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), pp. 593-600 in Zootaxa 5325 (4) on pages 599-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5325.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/8243787