Melphinyet tarace

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Melphinyet tarace (Mabille, 1891)

Type locality: Sierra Leone, Guma Valley.

Holotype: female ♀. Not traced

Pamphila tarace Mabille, 1891ː 179.
Parnara flavifasciola H. H. Druce, 1909ː 412, Pl.LXVII, Fig.9. Cameroon, Bitje.
Parnara tarace (Mabille); Aurivillius, in Seitz, 1924ː 539.
Melphina tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163
Parnara unistriga Holland, 1894ː 30.
Baoris statirides Holland, 1896ː 69, Pl.V Fig.6.
Melphina tarace (forma) unistriga Evans, 1937ː ̚163. Sierra Leone.
Melphina tarace (forma) tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163
Melphina tarace (forma) statirides Holland; Evans, 1937ː ̚163. Cameroons.
Melphina tarace (forma) flavina Evans, 1937ː ̚163
Melphina tarace Mabille; Evans, 1937ː ̚163; Bridges, 1994ː VIII.220, IX.36; Lepindex.
Melphinyet tarace Mabille; Larsen, 2012: 18.

Bridges, C.A. (1994). Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Urbana, Illinois: Bridges. BHL Reference page.
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. 1–212. Reference page.
Holland, W. J., 1894. African Hesperiidae. Entomological News 5ː 26-31, Pl.I. Reference page.
Larsen, T.B. 2012. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Melphina Evans and the description of two new genera: Melphinyet and Noctulana (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae, incertae sedis). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22(1): 16–23. Reference page.
Mabille, P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides Nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 35: 59–88; 106–121; 167-187. Reference page.
Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. Reference page.