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Melese drucei Rothschild 1909

  • 1. 1, rue Roger Rameau F- 93110 Rosny sous Bois (France) correspondant au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Entomologie, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 2. Haute-Lande F- 33850 Léognan (France) correspondant au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Entomologie, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) mlaguerre @ wanadoo. fr.

Description

Melese drucei Rothschild, 1909

Melese drucei Rothschild, 1909b: 271.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Suriname, [Sipaliwini], Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 17 males and 1 female. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym valley, Suriname, April 05 (S.M. Klages)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Melese drucei Type Rothsch[ild]” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Melese drucei ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).

Notes

Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 232, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Erebidae
Genus
Melese
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild
Species
drucei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melese drucei Rothschild, 1909 sec. Vincent & Laguerre, 2014

References

  • ROTHSCHILD L. W. 1909 b. - Description of some new South American Arctiadae, with notes. Novitates Zoologicae 16: 268 - 299.