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Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)

Permalink:	ACHABORI
Higher taxa:	Erebidae (family)/ Erebinae (subfamily)/ Poaphilini (tribe)/ Achaea (genus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	(Geyer, 1837)
Citation:	Blosyris Boris
Original genus:	Blosyris
Publication:	Geyer C. 1837a. Zuträge zur Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge, bestehend in Bekanntmachung einzelner Geschlechter neuer oder seltener Nichteuropäischer Arten. (Fortsetzung des Hübner'schen Werkes). Fünftes Hundert.
Journal:	—
Volume:	5
Issue:
Pagination:	42, figs 973, 974
URL:	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12723799

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Achaea boris (1)

Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	Holotype	♀		Holotype ♀, lost.	South Africa	South Africa, leg. Grimm.

Distribution note:

Achaea boris is restricted to southern Africa; all other records (e.g. Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone Wojtusiak 1996c: 685; Angola, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Hampson 1913c: 530 as sordida) refer to another species, the oldest available name for it seems to be Ophisma oblita Walker, 1858 (A. Legrain i.l. 2016).

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	Ethiopia		Kravchenko V. D., Matov A., Speidel W., Rybalov L., Seyoum E., Beredin S., Negeri M., Witt T., Mooser J. & Müller G. C. 2010. Contributions to the Lepidoptera Fauna of Ethiopia: Catocaline Taxa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). page 49 (as sordida)
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	Lesotho		Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. page 530 (as sordida)
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Wallengren H. D. J. 1856. Anteckningar I Zoologien. I. Kafferlandets Macrolepidoptera-fauna. page 70 (as confinis)
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	South Africa	Mpumalanga	page TMSA
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	South Africa	Gauteng	Distant W. L. 1892b. A naturalist in the Transvaal. page 239 (as pretoriae)
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	South Africa	Eastern Cape	Möschler H. B. 1884. Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-fauna des Kaffernlandes. page 306
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	South Africa		Geyer C. 1837b. Zuträge zur Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge, bestehend in Bekanntmachung einzelner Geschlechter, neuer oder seltener nichteuropäischer Arten (Fortsetzung des Hübner'schen Werkes) (Fünftes Hundert). page 42
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	Zambia		page TMSA

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication	URL
Achaea boris (Geyer, 1837)	Calpurnia aurea	Fabaceae	South Africa	Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. page 72 (as sordida, C. lasiogyne)

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL

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Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination
Achaea confinis (Wallengren, 1856)	(Wallengren, 1856)	species	Synonym	Ophisma confinis
Achaea pretoriae (Distant, 1892)	(Distant, 1892)	species	Synonym	Ophisma pretoriae
Achaea sordida (Walker, 1865)	(Walker, 1865)	species	Synonym	Ophisma sordida