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Mnesithetis Swinhoe, 1900

Higher taxa: Geometridae (family)/  Sterrhinae (subfamily)/  Cyllopodini (tribe)/  Mnesithetis (genus)/ 
Status:Misapplied , the accepted name is Dithecodes
Authorship:Swinhoe, 1900
Citation:Genus Mnesithetis. Warren: ined.
Taxon remarks:Type species: Hemithea idaea Swinhoe, 1892. Transactions of the Royal entomological Society of London 1892: 6. By subsequent designation by Prout, 1918. Novitates Zoologicae 25: 78. A junior homonym of Mnesithetis Warren, 1897 [Geometridae]. Dithecodes Warren, 1900, is available as a subjective replacement name. Included by Parsons et al. (1999: 237) as a junior synonym of Dithecodes Warren, 1900.
Publication:Swinhoe C. 1900a. Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Walsingham & Durrant: Pterophorina and Tineina.
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Volume:2
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Pagination:370
URL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23358021