Alpenus investigatorum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Alpenus
Species: Alpenus investigatorum

Name

Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)

Type locality: Tanzania: Bagamoyo.

Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. 05.VII.1896. (lectotype Spilosoma investigatorum designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)

Synonyms

• Spilosoma investigatorum Karsch, 1898 (original combination)
• Spilosoma cribraria Bartel, 1903 (Synonymized by Gaede in Seitz, 1926: 96)
  • Type locality: Tanzania: Mhonda.
    • Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. legit Stichel. (lectotype designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)
• Spilosoma mhondana Bartel, 1903 (Synonymized by Gaede in Seitz, 1926: 96)
  • Type locality: Tanzania: Mhonda.
    • Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. legit Stichel. (lectotype designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)
• Diacrisia (Spilosoma) investigatorum ab. extrema Dufrane, 1953
• Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898): Watson, 1988: 260.

References

• Bartel, M., 1903: Neue aetiopische Arctiidae der Sammlung des Kgl. Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 16: 170–214.
• Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301.
• Karsch, F., 1898: Über die auf der Irangi-Expedition gesammelten Orthoptera und Lepidoptera. In: Werther, C.W. Die mittleren Hochländer des nördlichen Deutsch-Ost-Africa 493 S., Berlin.
• Watson, A. 1988. A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica scandinavica 19(3): 251–291. DOI: 10.1163/187631289X00177 Reference page.