Prototheora
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Hepialoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Prototheoridae
Genus: Prototheora
Species (16):
P. angolae –
P. biserrata –
P. cooperi –
P. corvifera –
P. drackensbergae –
P. geniculata –
P. katangensis –
P. malawiensis –
P. merga –
P. monoglossa –
P. parachlora –
P. petrosema –
P. quadricornis –
P. serruligera –
P. tanzaniensis –
P. zimbabwiensis
Name
[edit]Prototheora Meyrick, 1917
Type species: Prototheora petrosema Edward Meyrick, 1917
Synonyms
[edit]- Metatheora Meyrick, 1919
References
[edit]- Landry, B. & Davis, D.R. 2018. Two new species of Prototheora Meyrick from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania representing the northernmost records for the genus (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 125(1): 129-135. full article (PDF). Reference page.
- Nielsen, E.S.; Robinson, G.S.; Wagner, D.L. 2000: Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera). Journal of natural history, 34: 823–878. DOI: 10.1080/002229300299282
- Ray Davis, D., 1996: A revision of the southern African family Prototheoridae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea). Insect Systematics & Evolution 27 (4): 393–439. Abstract: DOI: 10.1163/187631296X00142
- Davis, D.R. 2001. A new species of Prototheora from Malawi, with additional notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus (Lepidoptera: Prototheoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103(2): 452–456. Reference page.