Melphinyet tarace
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Melphinyet
Species: Melphinyet tarace
Name
[edit]Melphinyet tarace (Mabille, 1891)
Type locality: Sierra Leone, Guma Valley.
Holotype: female ♀. Not traced
Synonymy
[edit]- Pamphila tarace Mabille, 1891ː 179.
- Parnara flavifasciola H. H. Druce, 1909ː 412, Pl.LXVII, Fig.9. Cameroon, Bitje.
- Parnara tarace (Mabille); Aurivillius, in Seitz, 1924ː 539.
- Melphina tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163
- Parnara unistriga Holland, 1894ː 30.
- Baoris statirides Holland, 1896ː 69, Pl.V Fig.6.
- Melphina tarace (forma) unistriga Evans, 1937ː ̚163. Sierra Leone.
- Melphina tarace (forma) tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163
- Melphina tarace (forma) statirides Holland; Evans, 1937ː ̚163. Cameroons.
- Melphina tarace (forma) flavina Evans, 1937ː ̚163
- Melphina tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163; Bridges, 1994ː VIII.220, IX.36; Lepindex.
- Melphinyet tarace Mabille; Larsen, 2012: 18.
References
[edit]- Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
- Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page.
- Holland, W. J., 1894. African Hesperiidae. Entomological News 5ː 26-31, Pl.I. Reference page.
- Larsen, T.B. 2012. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Melphina Evans and the description of two new genera: Melphinyet and Noctulana (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae, incertae sedis). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22(1): 16–23. Reference page.
- Mabille, P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides Nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 35: 59–88; 106–121; 167-187. Reference page.
- Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. Reference page.