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Platylesches rasta Evans 1937
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Platylesches rasta Evans, 1937
SCC identified a specimen of P. rasta amongst adults of P. moritili (Wallengren) f. delta (Cock & Congdon 2013) that TCEC reared from Parinari curatellifolia from ‘Mulanje Pond’, under Mlanje Mountain, Malawi, an area of rough scrub near the murram road to Mount Zion from Mulanje town. At the time it was assumed to be a lightly marked individual of Platylesches moritili f. delta and it was only by chance that this individual was photographed (Figure 20.3). The caterpillar must have been a tube maker (Cock & Congdon 2013, Figure 70) and the pupa must have been plain white (Cock & Congdon 2013, Figure 76.4) or they would have been noticed as different and documented.
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Published as part of Collins, Steve C., 2017, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections, pp. 471-496 in Zootaxa 4312 (3) on page 490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/855771
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Evans
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Platylesches
- Species
- rasta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platylesches rasta Evans, 1937 sec. Collins, 2017
References
- Evans, W. H. (1937) A catalogue of the African Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London, UK, 212 pp, 30 plates.
- Cock, M. J. W. & Congdon, T. C. E. (2013) Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) principally from Kenya. Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon feeders. Zootaxa, 3724 (1), 1 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3724.1.1