| FAMILY |
Psychidae |
| SUBFAMILY |
Metisinae
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| GENUS |
Metisa |
| SPECIES |
fumosa
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| AUTHOR | (Janse, 1919) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Semimanatha fumosa sp. n. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal], Natal, Pietermaritzburg, e.l. 18.xii.1916, leg. C. B. Hardenberg.
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| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES |
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| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, TMSA; Paratypes 2♂, both abdomen missing (see A. J. T. Janse 1919b: 139), TMSA.
|
| STATUS |
Synonym of species |
| SYNONYM OF | aethiops |
| COMMENT | A junior subjective synonym of Manatha aethiops Hampson, 1910; synonymized by J. Bourgogne (1973: 366). |
| PUBLICATION |
Janse A. J. T. 1919b. South African bagworms: a new subgenus and species of the genus Acanthopsyche, and a re-description of Trichocossus arvensis Janse. - Annals of the Natal Museum 4:137-141.
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| PAGINATION |
139, figs a-c
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