Prionapteryx amathusia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pyraloidea

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: Pyraloidea

Familia: Crambidae
Subfamilia: Crambinae
Tribus: Prionapterygini
Genus: Prionapteryx
Species: Prionapteryx amathusia

Name

Prionapteryx amathusia Bassi & Mey, 2011

Type locality: Namibia, Sissekap, NW of Otavi, 1300 m.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. 11.XI.1933. leg. K. Jordan, gen. slide 5733 (BMNH).

Paratypes: NAMIBIA: 14 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; Bellerode, 27 km E of Windhoek, 1800m., 17-22.X.1933, K. Jordan legit, genitalia slide 5743 BMNH, BMNH; 4 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀; Hoffnung, E. of Windhoek, 1850m, 9.X.1933, K. Jordan legit, BMNH; 4 ♂♂; Hoffnung, E. of Windhoek, 1850m, 24.X.1933, K. Jordan legit, BMNH; 1♂, 2 ♀♀; Namib-Naukluft N.P., Tsams-Ost, 3.XII.2008, W. Mey, K. Ebert & L. Kühne legit; GS 5196 and 5209 GB, Coll. MFNB, MNMW and Bassi.

References

• Mey, W., 2011: New and little known species of Lepidoptera of southwestern Africa. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 6: 146-261.
• Bassi, G., 2013: Notes on some Old World Prionapterygini Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with descriptions of new species. Revue suisse de zoologie, Genève 120 (1): 131-160.