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Meharia semilactea Warren et Rothschild 1905
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Description
Meharia semilactea (Warren et Rothschild, 1905) (Figs 10, 35−37)
Alavona semilactea Warren et Rothschild, 1905: 32.
Type locality: Nakheila, R. Atbara [NW Sudan].
Type material (holotype) in BMNH, examined.
Distribution: Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arabian Emirates, Egypt (Sinai peninsula), Morocco, N. Sudan, Mauritania (Rungs 1979; Wiltshire 1982, 1990; Legrain & Wiltshire 1998; Hacker 1999; Hacker et al. 1999, 2001; Yakovlev & Saldaitis 2008; Yakovlev & Breithaupt 2013).
Notes
Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2014, A new species of Meharia Chrétien, 1915 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) from the United Arab Emirates, with a world catalogue of the genus, pp. 401-410 in Zootaxa 3895 (3) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/227815
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Warren et Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Cossidae
- Genus
- Meharia
- Species
- semilactea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Meharia semilactea et, 1905 sec. Yakovlev, 2014
References
- Rungs, Ch. E. E. (1979) Catalogue raisonne des Lepidopteres du Maroc. Inventaire Faunistique et observations ecologiques 1. Travaux de l'Institute Scientifique, Ser. Zoologie, Rabat, 39, 1 - 244.
- Wiltshire, E. P. (1982) Insects of Saudi Arabia. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Zygaenidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Bombycidae, Sphingidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Thyretidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae (Part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 4, 271 - 331.
- Wiltshire, E. P. (1990) An Illustrated Annotated Catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 11, 91 - 250.
- Legrain, A. & E. P. Wiltshire (1998) Provisional Checklist of the Macro-heterocera of UAE. Tribulus, 8 (2), 5 - 8.
- Yakovlev, R. V. & Saldaitis, A. (2008) New species of Palaearctic and Oriental Cossidae (Lepidoptera). III. New species of genus Meharia Chretien, 1915 from Morocco. Eversmannia, 15 - 16, 49 - 52. [in Russian]
- Yakovlev, R. V. & Breithaupt, R. (2013) The first data on the Cossidae fauna (Lepidoptera) from the Eastern Emirates of the UAE. Amurian zoological journal, 5 (2), 1 - 176. [in Russian]