Monza cretacea

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

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Monza
Species: Monza cretacea
Subspecies: M. c. candia –M. c. cretacea –M. c. crola –M. c. crona –M. c. punctata

Name

Monza cretacea Snellen, 1872.

Type Locality: New Guinea.

Holotype: MNHN?

Synonymy

Goniloba cretacea Snellen, 1872: 27, pl.2 figs 4-6.
Hesperia gonessa Hewitson, 1877: 76. Angola; Type BMNH.
Pamphila leucosoma Mabille, 1877: 114. West Africa. Type BMNH.
Gegenes cratacea (sic); Mabille, 1877: 233.
Gegenes leucosoma Mabille, 1877: 233. West Africa. Type BMNH.
Hesperia camerona Plötz, 1879: 356. Cameroons.
Hypoleucis cretacea (Snellen); Holland, 1896: 47.
Hypoleucis cretacea var. ploetziana Strand, 1920: 155.
Acleros oldenburghi Neustetter, 1927: 61. Cameroons.
Monza cretacea (Snellen); Evans, 1937: 161; Hemming, 1967: 297; Bridges, 1994: IX.38.

References

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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.
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Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page.
Hewitson, W.C. 1877. Descriptions of twenty-five new species of Hesperidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)19: 76–85. Reference page.
Holland, W.J. 1896. A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent Islands, with Descriptions of some apparently new Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 2–107. BHL Pls I–V . Reference page.
Holland, W.J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo; Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43(6): 109-369, Pls.VI-XIV. Reference page.
Mabille, P. 1877. Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux du groupe des Hespérides. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(167): 114; 2(179): 161–162. Reference page.
Plötz, C. 1879. Verzeichniss der vom verstorbenen Prof. Dr. R. Bucholz in West Africa - beim Meerbusen von Guinea - gesammelten Hesperien. Entomologische Zeitung 40: 353–364. BHL Reference page.
Snellen, P.C.T. 1872. Bijdrage tot de Vlinder-Faune van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 15: 1–112. BHL Reference page.
Strand, E., 1920. Systematische-faunistiche Beitrage zur Kenntnis exotischer Heterocera und Grypocera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 86(6-8): 113-171. Reference page.