Noctulana noctula
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Noctulana
Species: Noctulana noctula
Name
[edit]Noctulana noctula (Druce, 1909)
Type locality: Cameroun, Bitje, Ja River, 2000 ft.
Type: BMNH. male ♂.
Synonymy
[edit]♦ Parnara noctula Druce, 1909ː 411, Pl.LXVII Fig.7 ♂.
♦ Parnara palocampta Druce, 1909ː 411, Pl.LXVII Fig.8 ♀.
♦ Melphina noctula (Druce); Evans, 1937ː 163; Bridges, 1994ː VIII.157, IX.36.
♦ Noctulana noctula (Druce); Larsen, 2012: 18.
References
[edit]- Druce, H.H., 1909. On some New and Little-known Hesperiidae from Tropical West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909: 406–413, Pl.LXVII. 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.
- 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.