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Achaea melicerta (sensu auct., nec Drury, 1773)

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Higher taxa: Erebidae (family)/  Erebinae (subfamily)/  Poaphilini (tribe)/  Achaea (genus)/ 
Status:Misapplied, the accepted name is Achaea catella
Authorship:(sensu auct., nec Drury, 1773)
Citation:Phal.[aena] Noct.[ua] Melicerta
Original genus:Noctua
Publication:Drury D. 1770–[1773]. Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of Exotic Insects, according to their different genera, very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from (etc.)
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Volume:1
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Pagination:46, index; pl. 23, fig. 1
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40638076
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Achaea melicerta (1)
Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Geometra janata Linnaeus, 1758; synonymized by G. F. Hampson (1913d: 332). Noctua melicerta Drury, 1773 is an Asiatic species which does not occur in Africa (A. Legrain, i.l. 30.x.2016).

Hampson G. F. 1913d. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XIII. Noctuidae.
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