Prionapteryx splendida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pyraloidea

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: Pyraloidea

Familia: Crambidae
Subfamilia: Crambinae
Tribus: Prionapterygini
Genus: Prionapteryx
Species: Prionapteryx splendida

Name

Prionapteryx splendida Bassi & Mey, 2011

Type locality: RSA, Gamtoos, Eastern Cape.

Holotype: TMSA. male ♂. genitalia slide Bassi no. 3475. 29.X.1949. leg. C.G.C. Dickson.

Paratypes: RSA: 3♂♂; [Western Cape, Cape Peninsula] Prom[onturii] B[ona] Sp[es], Grimm legit; GS 5204 GB, MFNB. 1♂; Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, Table Mountain N. P., headquarter, 17-19.XI.2008, K. Ebert, W. Mey & L. Kühne legit, MFNB. 3♂♂, Blue Downs nr. Faure, C.P., 17.XII.42, C.G.C. Dickson legit; GS 5211 GB, TMSA and Coll. Bassi. 1♂; Zoetendals Valley, C.P., X.40, G. van Son legit, TMSA. 2♂♂; Port Elisabeth, XI.1951 e 26.XI.1949, C.G.C. Dickson legit, TMSA. 2♂♂; Strandfontein, C[ape] P[rovince], 6.I.1961, C.G.C. Dickson legit, TMSA. 6♂♂; De Hoop, C.P., Breddsdorp Dist., 1-3.XI.1967, Vári & Potgieter legit, TMSA and Coll. Bassi. 1♂; Wilderness, 1.2.XII.1951, C.G.C. Dickson legit, TMSA.

References

• Mey, W., 2011: New and little known species of Lepidoptera of southwestern Africa. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 6: 146-261.
• Bassi, G., 2013: Notes on some Old World Prionapterygini Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with descriptions of new species. Revue suisse de zoologie, Genève 120 (1): 131-160.