Afrocerura bifasciata tanganyikae ( Kiriakoff, 1963 )

Mulvaney, Lydia R. J., 2021, Notes on the life history and taxonomy of Cerurina marshalli (Noctuoidea: Notodontidae: Cerurinae), Metamorphosis 32 (1), pp. 1-12 : 7

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scientific name

Afrocerura bifasciata tanganyikae ( Kiriakoff, 1963 )
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Afrocerura bifasciata tanganyikae ( Kiriakoff, 1963)

( Fig. 22 View Figures 18–31 )

Afrocerura leonensis tanganyikae Kiriakoff, 1963: 215 View in CoL . Afrocerura bifasciata tanganyikae ( Kiriakoff, 1963) : Schintlmeister & Witt, 2015: 31.

Name bearing type: ( Fig. 22 View Figures 18–31 ) Holotype ♂: [without type label] “// [ Kenya] Mombasa, / October 05. / (Jackson). [black bordered label] // bifasciata Janse View in CoL [handwritten] // Photo done by / A. SCHINTLMEISTER / #9.669 [yellow label] //” ( NHMUK).

Remarks

The holotype of this taxon was dissected and figured by Kiriakoff (1963) but the corresponding genitalia slide could not be located in NHMUK. Any future assessment of the holotype and conclusions drawn about its ranking at species or subspecies level therefore remains ambiguous. Schintlmeister & Witt (2015) considered tanganyikae to be a subspecies of bifasciata rather than leonensis and figured the male genitalia of a specimen from southern Tanzania (labelled incorrectly as Afrocerura tanganyikae ). Without access to any further material, their subspecific concept is here maintained.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Afrocerura

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Afrocerura bifasciata tanganyikae ( Kiriakoff, 1963 )

Mulvaney, Lydia R. J. 2021
2021
Loc

Afrocerura leonensis tanganyikae

KIRIAKOFF, S. G. 1963: 215
1963
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