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Magnificus regius
Authors/Creators
- 1. Research Associate, OpenScience Lab NZ, Ngaio, New Zealand
- 2. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, 08412 Vilnius- 21, Lithuania
- 3. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, RUS- 656049 Barnaul, Russia
- 4. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, RUS- 656049 Barnaul, Russia; Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, RUS- 634050 Tomsk, Russia; Samarkand State University, University blv. 15, 140104 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- 5. University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, BP 1805 Bamako, Mali; Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Kalman Ya'akov Man St., 91120 Jerusalem, Israel
- 6. Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Entomology I department, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 7. Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Caixa postal 1206, 84.145 - 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil
- 8. Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China; Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China; Asian International River Center, Kunming, 650500, China
Description
Magnificus regius (Staudinger, 1896: 301) (Fig. 6a (HT))
= Phassus regius rubellus (Bang-Haas, 1939) (Fig. 6b (HT), 6c)
Type locality: China, Xizang province, Kukunoor [Kuku Noor lake].
Type depository: not located, although the Staudinger collection is in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany.
Generic placement: Grehan et al. (2021).
Distinguishing features: Mottled forewings with prominent whitish-brown postdiscal transverse band extending from posterior margin and bifurcating near the outer costal margin and apex (Grehan et al. 2021).
Notes
Published as part of Grehan, John R., Saldaitis, Aidas, Prozorov, Alexey M., Yakovlev, Roman V., Müller, Günter C., Ignatev, Nikolai, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Xu, Zhen-Bang, Duan, Yang & Dūda, Juozas, 2025, Three new species of the ghost moth Magnificus Yan from China and India (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae), pp. 552-572 in Zootaxa 5679 (4) on page 555, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5679.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/16985959
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Staudinger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hepialidae
- Genus
- Magnificus
- Species
- regius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Magnificus regius (Staudinger, 1896) sec. Grehan, Saldaitis, Prozorov, Yakovlev, Müller, Ignatev, Mielke, Xu, Duan & Dūda, 2025
References
- Staudinger, O. (1896) Beschreibungen neuer Lepidopteren aus Tibet. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 8, 300-308.
- Bang-Haas, O. (1939) Neubeschreibungen und Berichtigungen der Palaearktischen Macrolepidopterenfauna 38. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 53, 49-60.
- Grehan, J. R., Mielke, C. G. C., Minet, J., Ignatev, N., Buchsbaum, U. & Xue, D. (2021) Taxonomic composition and monophyly of the genus Magnificus (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea: Hepialidae). Zootaxa, 4920 (3), 339-358. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.2