Hemijana griseola , Rothschild 1917, syn. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. African Natural History Research Trust, Street Court, Leominster, HR 6 9 QA, UK.
Description
Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917 syn. nov.
Fig. 36
Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917: 490. Type locality: [South Africa] “Mooi River, Natal”
Hemijana griseola – Gaede 1927: 302. — Vári et al. 2002: 150. — Kitching et al. 2018: suppl. material 1. — Krüger 2020: 138.
Poloma nigromaculata – Aurivillius 1893: 210.
Type material
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♂ (Fig. 36); “ Mooi River, / Natal. // Poloma / nigromacu / lata Aur. / der. M.Gaede [partially handwritten] // NHMUK 014200383 [QR code]”; NHMUK.
Remarks
A single male from the Rothschild collection in NHMUK matching the original description and with the label corresponding to the type locality is likely the (unlabelled) holotype of Hemijana griseola (Fig. 36). Rothschild’s handwritten determination label appears to have become disassociated from the specimen at some stage and is instead pinned to the holotype of Poloma variegata (Rothschild, 1917). This taxon is conspecific with Poloma nigromaculata (Aurivillius, 1893) as determined by Gaede and is herein synonymised with Aurivillius’s taxon; thus Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917 syn. nov. = Poloma nigromaculata (Aurivillius, 1893). See Takano & Morgan (2025) for further figures of this species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Material sample ID
- NHMUK 014200383
- Scientific name authorship
- , Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Eupterotidae
- Genus
- Hemijana
- Species
- griseola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- syn. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemijana griseola , 1917 sec. Takano, 2025
References
- Rothschild L. W. 1917. Some new moths of the families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae. Novitates Zoologicae 24 (3): 475-492. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.23155
- Gaede M. 1927. Eupterotidae. In: Seitz A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. Die Afrikanischen Spinner und Schwarmer (14): 293-311. Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.
- Vari L., Kroon D. M. & Kruger M. 2002. Classification and Checklist of the Species of Lepidoptera Recorded in Southern Africa. Simple Solutions Australia, Chastwood.
- Kitching I. J., Rougerie R., Zwick A., Hamilton C. A., St Lauren R. A., Naumann S., Ballesteros Mejia L. & Kawahara A. Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e 22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e2226
- Kruger M. 2020. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of southern Africa. Metamorphosis 31 (2): 1-201. https://doi.org/10.4314/met.v31i2.2
- Aurivillius C. 1893. Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika. Entomologisk Tidskrift 14 (3): 199-214.
- Takano H. & Morgan L. E. 2025. A revision of the genus Poloma Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera, Eupterotidae) with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 5627 (3): 526-538. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.6