Mentaxya rimosa
(Guenée, 1852)
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FAMILY Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY
Noctuinae
GENUS Mentaxya
SPECIES
rimosa
AUTHOR (Guenée, 1852) ORIGINAL COMBINATION Agrotis Rimosa Gn. TYPE LOCALITY [South Africa, Western Cape], Cap de Bonne-Espérence.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES
Latitude: -34°21'0"
Longitude: 18°28'0"
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TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♀, not retrieved (A. Legrain i.l. 2018), MNHN.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION
Guenée A. M. 1852a. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. V. Species général des Lépidoptères. Noctuélites. Tome I. - — 5:i-xvi, 1-407.
PAGINATION
277
Synonyms
NAME AUTHOR STATUS
cumulata (Walker, 1865)
Synonym of species
varia (Walker, 1865)
Synonym of species
Species Distribution
COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
South Africa Western Cape
Guenée A. M. 1852a. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. V. Species général des Lépidoptères. Noctuélites. Tome I. - — 5:i-xvi, 1-407.
277
South Africa Eastern Cape
Berio E. 1955d. Georyx muscosa Gey. e le specie affini (Lepid. Noct.). - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 51(3-4):212-222.
217 (as perfecta)
Notes: The records of Kenya (Berio 1955d: 216), Lesotho (Berio 1955s: 218 as viridea), and Zimbabwe (Pinhey 1975: 186) are misidentifications of other species.
Host Plants
Unknown
