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Issue: Vol. 4254 No. 3: 18 Apr. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.7
Page range: 379–381
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The identity of Arhodia egenaria Walker, 1866 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) and a new synonym of Cicinnus melsheimeri (Harris, 1841)

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710, USA.
New York State Museum, 222 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12230, USA.
Lepidoptera Mimallonoidea Mimallonidae

Abstract

The holotypes of Arhodia egenaria Walker, 1866 and Cicinnus primolus Schaus, 1928, syn. n., were examined. Both names are junior synonyms of C. melsheimeri (Harris, 1841). Cicinnus melsheimeri (as Perophora egenaria), sensu Hampson, 1904, is a misidentification of C. bahamensis St Laurent & McCabe, 2016.

 

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