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 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: 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) 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.

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