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Peloroses aurantiaca (Oberthür, 1923)

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Higher taxa: Erebidae (family)/  Lymantriinae (subfamily)/  UnassignedLymantriinae (tribe)/  Peloroses (genus)/ 
Status:Synonym, the accepted name is Peloroses praestans
Authorship:(Oberthür, 1923)
Citation:Numenes Aurantiaca, Obthr.
Original genus:Numenes
Publication:Oberthür C. 1923b. Lépidoptères de Madagascar et d'Afrique tropicale.
Journal:Etudes de Lépidoptérologie comparée
Volume:21
Issue:2
Pagination:144–145; pl. 567, fig. 4899

Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Numenes praestans Saalmüller, 1884; synonymized by C. L. Collenette (1931b: 511).

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Peloroses aurantiaca (Oberthür, 1923) Holotype NHMUK Holotype ♂, NHMUK. Madagascar Madagascar S, iv.1922, leg. Lamberton [probably wrong, see P. Griveaud 1977a: 167].
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