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Phazaca

Description

Phazaca NAKULA Clayton, 2002

Entomologist’s Record & Journal of Variation, 114 (5), 193–197 [193], pl. K: figs. 1 & 2; figs. 1a & 1c.

Holotype, male, pinned (abdomen on Genitalia slide G.140): also paratypes 23, 3Ƥ; pinned (two abdomens on Genitalia slides).

Specimen data: Holotype; “Phazuca | nakula 3 | Fiji, Vanua Levu | Nakula Estate | S22/2213 | J. Clayton | 1.1.98 ” [Handwritten (by Clayton)] on verso “I3636 | G140” [Handwritten (by Clayton)]. “ Holotype ” [Round, red-bordered label]. “J. Clayton | NMSZ 2003.093.1”.

Remarks: This specimen is unambiguously the holotype designated by Clayton (2002). The wings of the holotype 3 and a paratype Ƥ are illustrated in colour in Pl. K: figs.1 & 2, and drawings of the 3 aedeagus (fig. 1a) and Ƥ signum (fig. 1c) of paratypes are all given in the type description (Clayton 2002). Type locality is given as “ FIJI, Vanua Levu, Cakaudrove Province.”

Notes

Published as part of Bland, Keith P., 2010, Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2394 on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.275866

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Uraniidae
Genus
Phazaca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Clayton, J. (2002) A new species of Uraniidae (Lep.) and a new species of Limacodidae (Lep.) from Fiji. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 114 (5), 193 - 197.