Melittia nepcha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cossoidea

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 Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia: Sesiidae
Subfamilia: Sesiinae
Tribus: Melittiini
Genus: Melittia
Species: Melittia nepcha

Name

Melittia nepcha Moore, 1879

Type locality: India, Darjiling.

Holotype: ZMHB. male ♂.

Synonymy

• Melittia amboinensis'' var. ''asiatica Le Cerf, 1917
  • Type locality: NE India, West Bengal] Darjeeling.
    • Lectotype: MNHN. male ♂. (lectotype designated by Gorbunov & Arita, 1995)
• Melittia amboinensis vietnamica Gorbunov, 1988
  • Type locality: North Vietnam, Shonla Prov., Shongma.
    • Holotype: coll. Gorbunov. male ♂

References

• Arita, Y. & Gorbunov, O.G. 1996: New and unrecorded clearwing moths of the genus Melittia Hubner, [1819] (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from Thailand. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 47(3): 157–173. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 
• Arita, Y. & Gorbunov, O.G. 2000b. On the tribe Melittiini (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of Vietnam. Tinea 16(4): 252–291. Reference page. 
• Kallies, A.; Arita, Y. 2004: New Taxa and Records of Clearwing Moths of the Tribe Melittiini (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from Vietnam. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 10(2): 193–209. Reference page.