| FAMILY |
Saturniidae |
| SUBFAMILY |
Saturniinae
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| GENUS |
Decachorda |
| SPECIES |
seydeli
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| AUTHOR | Rougeot, 1970 |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Decachorda seydeli n. sp. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [Democratic Republic of Congo], Katanga, Kolwezi, 27.x.1964, leg. V. Allard.
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| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES |
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| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, MNHN; Paratypes 12♂, MNHN, RMCA.
|
| STATUS |
Species |
| COMMENT | The specimen in RMCA, labeled as allotype, cannot be the type, since in the original description P.-C. Rougeot mentioned only males, including some caught by Ch. Seydel in 1932 and 1933, but none in 1930. |
| PUBLICATION |
Rougeot P.-C. 1970b. Deux nouvelles espèces de Decachorda (Lep. Attacidae). - Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 75(1-2):41-43.
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| PAGINATION |
42-43, fig. 3
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