Melphinyet tarace

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

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 Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Melphinyet
Species: Melphinyet tarace

Name

Melphinyet tarace (Mabille, 1891)

Type locality: Sierra Leone, Guma Valley.

Holotype: female ♀. Not traced

Synonymy

• 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

• 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.