Noctulana noctula

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: Noctulana
Species: Noctulana noctula

Name

Noctulana noctula (Druce, 1909)

Type locality: Cameroun, Bitje, Ja River, 2000 ft.

Type: BMNH. male ♂.

Synonymy

♦ Parnara noctula Druce, 1909ː 411, Pl.LXVII Fig.7 ♂.
♦ Parnara palocampta Druce, 1909ː 411, Pl.LXVII Fig.8 ♀.
♦ Melphina noctula (Druce); Evans, 1937ː 163; Bridges, 1994ː VIII.157, IX.36.
♦ Noctulana noctula (Druce); Larsen, 2012: 18.

References

• Druce, H.H., 1909. On some New and Little-known Hesperiidae from Tropical West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909: 406–413, Pl.LXVII. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• 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.