Tissanga

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bombycoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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 Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Familia: Eupterotidae
Subfamilia: Janinae
Genus: Tissanga
Species: T. kiboriana – T. murphyi – T. pretoriae – T. zambiana

Name

Tissanga Distant, 1903

Type species: Sangatissa pretoriae Distant, 1892, by monotypy.

(Note: In some schemes treated in distinct Subfamily Tissanginae (After Minet, 1994: 78) or a tribe Eupterotinae: Tissangini (After Forbes, 1955: 98), but listed in Janinae by Nässig & Oberprieler, 2008: 58, 71 (citing Oberprieler, 2008: 107), also per Kitching et al., 2018: Suppl.)

Synonymy

Tissanga Distant, 1903: 80. (Protonym) (Note, the text is attributed to Aurivillius).

References

Primary references

Distant, 1903. In. Distant (Ed). Insecta Transvaaliensia: A Contribution to a Knowledge of the Entomology of South Africa. Part.4. London, F. Edwards [etc.] BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Basquin, P. & Darge, P. 2011. Une deuxième espèce de Tissanga Aurivillius, 1903, originaire de Tanzanie (Lepidoptera, Eupterotidae). Saturnafrica 10: 5–8. Reference page.
Bouyer, Th. 2012e. Description de nouvelles espèces des genres Tissanga Aurivillius, 1903 et Dactyloceras Mell, 1927 du Malawi (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae: Eupterotidae). Lambillionea 112(3): 221–225. Reference page.
Darge, P. & Minetti, R. 2012. Une nouvelle espèce de Tissanga Aurivillius, 1903, originaire de Zambie (Lepidoptera, Eupterotidae). Saturnafrica 11: 9–10. Reference page.
Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page.
Nässig, W.A. & Oberprieler, R.G. 2008. An annotated catalogue of the genera of Eupterotidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88(1): 53–80. ResearchGate Reference page.
Oberprieler, R.G., Nässig, W.A. & Edwards, E.D. 2003. Ebbepterote, a new genus for the Australian Eupterote expansa (T. P. Lucas), with a revised classification of the family Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 99–110. DOI: 10.1071/IS02028 Reference page.

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