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Metapioplasta costosa (Mabille, 1900)

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Higher taxa: Noctuidae (family)/  Acontiinae (subfamily)/  Acontiini (tribe)/  Metapioplasta (genus)/ 
Status:Synonym, the accepted name is Metapioplasta microptera
Authorship:(Mabille, 1900)
Citation:Tarache costosa n. sp.
Original genus:Tarache
Publication:Mabille P. 1900. Lepidoptera nova malgassica et africana.
Journal:Annales de la Société entomologique de France
Volume:68 (1899)
Issue:4
Pagination:729–729
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8431931
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Metapioplasta costosa (1)
Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Acontia microptera Mabille, 1879; synonymized by H. Hacker, A. Legrain & M. Fibiger (2008: 287).

Hacker H. H., Legrain A. & Fibiger M. 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae).
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Metapioplasta costosa (Mabille, 1900) Holotype ♀ MNHN Holotype ♀, MNHN (see P. Viette & D. S. Fletcher 1968: 416). Africa orientalis. Viette P. & Fletcher D. S. 1968. The types of Lepidoptera Heterocera described by P. Mabille. page 729–729
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