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Coniortodes Collenette, 1956

Higher taxa: Erebidae (family)/  Lymantriinae (subfamily)/  Coniortodes (genus)/ 
Status:Misapplied , the accepted name is Melgona
Authorship:Collenette, 1956
Citation:Coniortodes, gen. nov.
Taxon remarks:Type species: Coniortodes conia Collenette, 1956. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 8: 644; pl. 16, fig. 13. By original designation and monotypy. A junior homonym of Coniortodes Wagner, 1952 – In: Dahl, Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 41: 172, 187, Hemiptera. The objective replacement name is Melgona Nye, 1980 (Nye 1980: 113).
Publication:Collenette C. L. 1956a. Further new and little-known African Lymantriidae.
Journal:Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Volume:(12) 8 (1955)
Issue:93
Pagination:643–644