Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders
Author
Cock, Matthew J. W.
Author
Congdon, T. Colin E.
text
Zootaxa
2014
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4
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.1
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Perrotia ismael
Oberthür, 1916
This species, formerly placed in
Miraja
, is now placed in
Perrotia
(
Lees
et al
. 2003
)
. It is another rare species in collections, known only from a handful of specimens (
Evans 1937
,
Viette 1956
). S.C. Collins (pers. comm. 2014) reared a specimen from a ‘largish bamboo’
10km
east of Anjozorobe (north-east of Antananarivo),
8–10 Apr 2003
. Unfortunately documentation is not available, but the preserved emerged pupa is
18mm
long; brown, darker on head and thorax; flattened frontally; shelter lined with white waxy powder. The final instar head capsule is oval, brown, darker on posterior margin and epicranial suture, but details are not clear due to white waxy powder.