Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders
Author
Cock, Matthew J. W.
C / o CABI Europe - UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, TW 20 9 TY, UK (e-mail: m. cock @ cabi. org; mjwcock @ btinternet. com)
m.cock@cabi.org
Author
Congdon, Colin E.
African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), P. O. Box 14308, Nairobi, Kenya (e-mail: colin. congdon @ gmail. com)
colin.congdon@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2013
2013-10-25
3724
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3724.1.1
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3724.1.1
1175-5326
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Melphinyet
Larsen, 2012
Larsen (2012)
critically evaluated the genus
Melphina
and described two new genera for species which had been placed in
Melphina
. One of these was
Melphinyet
, established with
M. flavina
(Evans)
as
type
species and four other species.
Evans (1937)
treated
tarace
Mabille
,
flavina
Evans
,
unistriga
Holland
and
statirides
Holland
as four forms of
tarace
.
Evans (1956)
presents T.H.E. Jackson’s observation that
tarace
,
flavina
and
unistriga
should be regarded as species since the forms fly together, are easily separable and do not intergrade, but did not accept this view. Subsequently,
Lindsey & Miller (1965)
agreed with Jackson’s view and formally raised all four to valid species separated by differences of the male genitalia.