Hecateana paulisi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bombycoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Bombycoidea

Hecateana paulisi (Dall’Asta & Poncin, 1980)

Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uele, Paulis.

Type material: Holotype Male ♂, RMCA, legit M. Fontaine, 05.IV.1957, gen. prep. EU no. 53.

Stenoglene paulisi Dall’Asta & Poncin, 1980: 479, figs 27–28, photo 1, fig. 11. (Original combination); Kitching et al., 2018: Suppl. 1; Basquin, 2024: 21; Basquin & Faravel, 2025: pl. 36.
Hecateana paulisi (Dall’Asta & Poncin, 1980); Takano, 2016: 52.

Dall'Asta, U. & Poncin, G. 1980. Nouvelles espèces des genres Stenoglene Felder et Epijana Holland de l'Afrique Centrale (Eupterotidae, Lepidoptera). Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 94(2): 457–488. Reference page.
Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page.
Takano, H. 2026. Revisional notes on the monkey-moth genus Stenoglene Felder & Felder, 1874 and its allies, with descriptions of several new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Eupterotidae: Janinae). Ecologica Montenegrina 94: 1-75. DOI: 10.37828/em.2026.94.1. . Reference page.