Melphinyet unistriga

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

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 Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Melphinyet
Species: Melphinyet unistriga

Name

Melphinyet unistriga (Holland, 1893)

Type locality: West Africa, Gabon, Valley of the Ogové.

Holotype: male ♀. Not traced

Synonymy

• Parnara unistriga Holland, 1893ː 30.
• Melphina tarace f. unistriga (Holland); Evans, 1937ː 163.
• Melphina unistriga (Holland); Lindsey & Miller, 1965ː 132, Fig.116 (genit.)
• Melphinyet unistriga (Holland); Larsen, 2012: 18.

References

• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page. 
• Fox R.M., Lindsey A.W., Clench H.K. & Miller L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 19: 1–438. BHL. Reference page. 
• Holland, W. J., 1894. African Hesperiidae. Entomological News 5ː 26-31, Pl.I. Reference page. 
• Holland, W.J. 1896. A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent Islands, with Descriptions of some apparently new Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 2–107, Pls I–V. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. 2012. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Melphina Evans and the description of two new genera: Melphinyet and Noctulana (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae, incertae sedis). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22(1): 16–23. Reference page.