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Archithosia (Acanthosia) similis Birket-Smith 1965

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Museo di Storia naturale del Salento. S. P. Calimera-Borgagne, Km 1, 73021 Calimera, Italy

Description

Archithosia (Acanthosia) similis Birket-Smith, 1965 (see image in Table 3)

Material (genitalia dissected): 1 ♂, GABON, Ipassa (Makokou), 500 m, 0°30'43"N 12°48'13"E, 19-2/ 11-3-2011, Durante leg., g. sl. n. 1246 MAD; 1 ♂, same data, 14/ 24-3-2015, g. sl. n. 1213 MAD; 1 ♂, same data, 16/ 21-6-2016, g. sl. n. 1247 MAD.

Remarks

Species recorded for the first time in Gabon.

Notes

Published as part of Durante, Antonio, Potenza, Luigi & Pellegrino, Gabriele, 2025, Revision of the subgenus Acanthosia Krüger, 2015 in the genus Archithosia Birket-Smith, 1965, with a description of four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 407-425 in Zootaxa 5659 (3) on pages 420-421, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15823338

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D187D538580F15FF66FDA5FD1DFF2F

Cites
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.15850858 (DOI)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF07664B38580F16FF69FCC3FAFCFC8A (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.6 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15823338 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE8FFAD38550F1BFFF1FFE3FF97FFD6 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A9502C5D-D8E1-4FB6-A06A-8F676257C36F (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D187D538580F15FF66FDA5FD1DFF2F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/265658494 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/310932/taxon/03D187D538580F15FF66FDA5FD1DFF2F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
MAD
Event date
2011-03-11 , 2015-03-24 , 2016-06-21
Verbatim event date
2011-03-11 , 2015-03-24 , 2016-06-21
Scientific name authorship
Birket-Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Archithosia
Species
similis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Archithosia (Acanthosia) similis Birket-Smith, 1965 sec. Durante, Potenza & Pellegrino, 2025

References

  • Birket-Smith, J. (1965) A revision of the West African Eilemic moths, based on the male genitalia (Lep., Arctiidae, Lithosinae; incl. gen. Crocosia, Eilema, Lithosia, Pelosia, Phryganopsis a. o.). Haile Sellassie I University. Papers from the Faculty of science, Series C (Zoology), 1, 1-161.