Delorhachis kitale West 1940
Description
Delorhachis kitale West, 1940 (Figures 13–15, 73, 99–100, 138)
Delorachis [sic] kitale West, 1940, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6 (11): 122, pl. 3, fig. 10. Type locality: Kenya, Kitale. Holotype, male, gen. slide no. Limacodidae 1326 J (NHMUK).
Type material examined
Holotype. Male: red circle label ′HOLO- | TYPE̍ || handwritten ′Delorachis | kitale | West | Holotype J̍ || handwritten ′55.30̍ || handwritten ′36 6̍ || ′Kitale | Kenya | G. W. Jeffrey ̍ | handwritten ′1.4.26̍ || ′Brit. Mus. | 1931–408̍ || ′ Limacodidae | Brit. Mus. slide | No. 1326̍ || QR code label with unique ID NHMUK 010894388 (NHMUK).
Additional material examined
DRC. 1 male, Aru, West of Lake Albert, xii. Kenya. 1 male, Kitale, 2 April 1926, Jeffery, G.W. leg., QR code no. NHMUK 014200542, gen. slide no. NHMUK 010317405; 1 male, Nairobi. South Sudan. 1 male, Lodara, 28 August 1948 (NHMUK). Sudan. 1 male, Province Kordofan, Kadugli, 29 June 1962, Schmutterer, H. leg., gen. slide no. RF 2021.838 (ZSM). Uganda. 1 male, 1 female, Mount Moroto, Moroto, April 2013, gen. slide nos. UE 6321, 6322 (RCMS).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Family
- Limacodidae
- Genus
- Delorhachis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- NHMUK 010894388
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- West
- Species
- kitale
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Delorhachis kitale West, 1940 sec. Taberer, Fiebig, Giusti & László, 2023
References
- West RJ. 1940. Descriptions of new species of Limacodidae. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 6 (11): 117 - 128. doi: 10. 1080 / 03745481.1940.9723662.