Mountelgonia arcifera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cossoidea

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 Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia: Metarbelidae
Genus: Mountelgonia
Species: Mountelgonia arcifera

Name

Mountelgonia arcifera (Hampson, 1909)

Type locality: BMNH. Male. Tanzania, Arusha Region, Monduli District, Naitolia.

Paratype: ZFMK. Male. Genitalia slide number 19/082012 I. Lehmann. Kenya, Stony Athi (formerly Athi-ya-Mawe), 15.March.1899. leg. C.S. Betton.

Synonyms

• Metarbela arcifera Hampson, 1909
• Metarbelodes arcifera Janse, 1925
• Metarbela pallescens Le Cerf, 1914
• Mountelgonia arcifera (Hampson, 1909) by Lehmann 2013: 17–21

References

• Hampson, G.F., 1909. Ruwenzori expedition reports. 11. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Arbelidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume xix.: p. 133.
• Lehmann, I., 2013. Description of two new genera and ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera:Cossoidea) from western, north-central and eastern Africa with notes on habitats and biogeography. Published by the author, Hamburg: pp. 1-81. Full article: [1].