Epitarsipus rufithorax Le Cerf 1922
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Description
Epitarsipus rufithorax Le Cerf, 1922 comb. rev.
Figs 17–19
Lectotype: ♀, Madagascar, Brickaville [Ampasimanolotra], 1917 (MNHN).
Additional material examined: 1♂, 1♀, Madagascar, Reg. sud de l'Ile, Bekily, Sept. [19]33 (MNHN); 1♀, S/W Madagascar, 27km N Tollara, 7m, dry forest near Ifaty, 9.- 13.11.2003, leg. Oelke (SMNS).
Epitarsipus rufithorax was described on the basis of a male and a female from Brickaville [Ampasimanolotra] (Le Cerf 1922). Viette (1982) designated the male as the lectotype and the female as a paralectotype. He concluded that the female, which is considerably different, belonged to another species, M. biedermanni (see M. rufescens below). This conclusion was based on the examination of a short series of both sexes of E. rufithorax from “Reg. sud de l'Ile, Bekily” collected in Sept. 1933, which clearly showed that there is no relevant dimorphism between the sexes.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN , SMNS
- Event date
- 2003-11-13
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Epitarsipus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Le Cerf
- Species
- rufithorax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2003-11-13
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epitarsipus rufithorax Cerf, 1922 sec. Bartsch, 2018
References
- Le Cerf, F. (1922) Troisieme Contribution a l'etude des Aegeriidae. Descriptions d'Especes et Varietes nouvelles. Etudes de Lepidopterologie Comparee, 19 (2), 17 - 39, 190 - 191, pls. 539 - 540.
- Viette, P. (1982) Insectes Lepidopteres Sesiidae. Faune de Madagascar, 61, 1 - 64.