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Melese pusilla Rothschild 1909

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Description

Melese pusilla Rothschild, 1909

Melese pusilla Rothschild, 1909b: 272.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Guyana, [Potaro-Siparuni], Potaro; [Brazil], Amazonas, Fonte Boa; Suriname, [Sipaliwini], Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley.

TYPE SPECIMENS.— Described from 3 male and 1 female syntypes (BMNH; one of the male labeled TYPE).

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 236, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Melese
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild
Species
pusilla
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Melese pusilla 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.