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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 3: 9 May 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.3.9
Page range: 391–399
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 4

An overlooked sibling of the fruit-piercing moth Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763) from Africa (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Calpinae)

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Lepidoptera Erebidae Calpinae Africa

Abstract

In recent years, we have been investigating the tropical calpine genus Eudocima Billberg, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Calpinae) with the intent of producing a generic revision. There are a number of undescribed species and here we describe as new a closely related species to the widespread and economically important fruit-piercer Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763) (= fullonia Clerck, 1764), with which it has long been confused. Study material came from the private collection of Vernon Antoine Brou collection (VAB) and the Natural History Museum, London (NHM).

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