Metisella meninx

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 Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota 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: Heteropterinae
Genus: Metisella
Species: Metisella meninx

Name

Metisella meninx Trimen, 1873.

Type Locality: Transvaal, Potchefstroom ("beginning of December").

Holotype: male, coll. Trimen.

Cyclopides meninx Trimen, 1873: 121, Pl.I fig.12.
Cyclopides argenteostriatus Plotz, 1886: 110. Synonymy in Bridges, 1994: VIII.18.
Metisella meninx (Trimen); Evans, 1937: 74; Bridges, 1994: IX.36.

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL 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) 1–212. Reference page.

Plötz, C. 1886. Nachtrag und Berichtigungen zu den Hesperiinen. Entomologische Zeitung 47: 83–117. BHL. Reference page.

Trimen, R., 1873. On some new species of butterflies discovered in extra-tropical Southern Africa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873: 101–124, pl.1. text, plate. Reference page.

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