Alpenus investigatorum

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Alpenus
Species: Alpenus investigatorum

Name

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Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)

Type locality: Tanzania: Bagamoyo.

Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. 05.VII.1896. (lectotype Spilosoma investigatorum designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)

Synonyms

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  • Spilosoma investigatorum Karsch, 1898 (original combination)
  • Spilosoma cribraria Bartel, 1903 (Synonymized by Gaede in Seitz, 1926: 96)
    • Type locality: Tanzania: Mhonda.
      • Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. legit Stichel. (lectotype designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)
  • Spilosoma mhondana Bartel, 1903 (Synonymized by Gaede in Seitz, 1926: 96)
    • Type locality: Tanzania: Mhonda.
      • Lectotype: ZMB. male ♂. legit Stichel. (lectotype designated by Watoson, 1988: 260)
  • Diacrisia (Spilosoma) investigatorum ab. extrema Dufrane, 1953
  • Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898): Watson, 1988: 260.

References

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  • Bartel, M., 1903: Neue aetiopische Arctiidae der Sammlung des Kgl. Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 16: 170–214.
  • Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301.
  • Karsch, F., 1898: Über die auf der Irangi-Expedition gesammelten Orthoptera und Lepidoptera. In: Werther, C.W. Die mittleren Hochländer des nördlichen Deutsch-Ost-Africa 493 S., Berlin.
  • Watson, A. 1988. A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica scandinavica 19(3): 251–291. DOI: 10.1163/187631289X00177 Reference page