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Melese nigromaculata 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 nigromaculata Rothschild, 1909

Melese nigromaculata Rothschild, 1909b: 272.

TYPE LOCALITY. — [Brazil], Minas Gerais.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 3 males and 4 females. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “Minas Geraes (Kennedy)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Melese nigromaculata Type Rothsch[ild]” / a white printed label “ Arctiidae ♀ (!), Genitalia slide, VU n° 16 W” / a blue printed label “ Arctiidae, genitalia slide, N° 2950” / 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 nigromaculata ♂ 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 235, 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
nigromaculata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melese nigromaculata 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.