Nervia nerva

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: Nervia
Species: Nervia nerva
Subspecies: N. n. nerva N. n. paola

Name

Nervia nerva (Fabricius, 1793).

Type Locality: "habitat in Indiis"; recte Southern Africa.

Holotype: tbc. BMNH.

Synonymy

  • Hesperia nerva Fabricius, 1793: 340.
  • Pyrgus tucusa Trimen, 1883: 359. Natal. Synonymy in Bridges.
  • =Kedestes mohozutza?, Aurivillius, in Seitz, 1908: 543.
  • Kedestes nerva (Fabricius); Kielland, 1990: 241.
  • Kedestes nerva nerva (Fabricius); Bridges, 1994: IX.33.
  • Nervia nerva (Fabricius); Grishin, 2019: 26.

References

  • Aurivillius, C. 1908–1925. In: Seitz, A., 1908–25. Die Großschmetterlinge des Afrikanischen Faunengebietes. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 13: 1-613, pls. 1-80. Reference page. 
  • 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. 
  • Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1-56. Reference page. 
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars I. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, [vi] + 487 pp. BHL Reference page. 
  • Hancock D.L. & Gardiner, A.J., 1982. The Kedestes nerva group of species (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae). Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9(8): 105-124. Reference page. 
  • Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page.