| FAMILY |
Noctuidae |
| SUBFAMILY |
Noctuinae
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| GENUS |
Mentaxya |
| SPECIES |
mesosema
|
| AUTHOR | (Hampson, 1911) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Agrotis mesosema, sp. n. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [South Africa, Gauteng], Transvaal, Johannesburg, iv.1906, leg. A. T. Cooke.
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| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES |
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| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♀, BMNH.
|
| STATUS |
Synonym of species |
| SYNONYM OF | muscosa |
| COMMENT | A junior subjective synonym of Mentaxya muscosa Geyer, 1837; synonymized by A. Legrain (i.l. 08.iv.2018); had been synonymized with Agrotis ignicollis Walker, 1857 by R. W. Poole (1989: 645). |
| PUBLICATION |
Hampson G. F. 1911. Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidae, Arctiadae, Agaristidae, and Noctuidae. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 8(46):393-445.
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| PAGINATION |
417-418
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