Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 9. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Zingiberales feeders, genera of unknown biology and an overview of the Hesperiinae incertae sedis
Author
Cock, Matthew J. W.
Author
Congdon, T. Colin E.
Author
Collins, Steve C.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4066
3
201
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journal article
51187
10.11646/zootaxa.4066.3.1
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Moltena
Evans, 1937
Evans (1937)
introduced this genus for the single species
Moltena
, which he considered to resemble
Ploetzia
apart from having a normal proboscis, rather than a vestigial one as in
Ploetzia
. In his review of the genus
Chondrolepis
,
De
Jong (1986)
found that based on an analysis of adult characters
Chondrolepis
seems to form a monophyletic group with
Ploetzia
and
Moltena
, with
Zophopetes
as their nearest relative. We have treated the early stages of the grass-feeding
Chondrolepis
in Cock & Congdon (2014), and the palm-feeders
Ploetzia
and
Zophopetes
in Cock
et al
. (2014), but deferred a comparison of the three genera until we had treated
Moltena
.