Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963 – a junior synonym of Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana
Author
Przybyłowicz, Łukasz
Author
Bąkowski, Marek
text
Zootaxa
2011
3031
54
60
journal article
46331
10.5281/zenodo.206669
ecffe773-a087-46b6-a66c-67f020eebd2e
1175-5326
206669
Melisa diptera
(Walker, 1854)
Euchromia diptera
Walker, 1854
. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Coll. British Museum 1: 265.
Material examined.
3 Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve;
24–30.VIII.2006
. (AMU).
Distribution.
New for
Ghana
. Species widely distributed in western Equatorial Africa. Known from
Cameroon
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Gabon
,
Ivory Coast
and
Nigeria
.
Remarks.
The genus
Melisa
consists of three rather uniform species, although they are easily separated by the colouration of the legs and position of the veins in the forewing. Their biology is unknown but the collecting localities suggest that they are related to the tropical rainforest zone.