Thacona africana (Aurivillius, 1904)

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FAMILY Notodontidae
SUBFAMILY Scranciinae
GENUS Thacona
SPECIES africana
AUTHOR(Aurivillius, 1904)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONGargetta africana n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITYCameroon, N'Dian, vi, leg. Y. Sjöstedt.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, SNHM.
STATUS Species
COMMENTTransferred to Thacona by A. Schintlmeister & T. Witt (2015: 20) by synonymizing Scrancia Holland, 1893 with Thacona Walker, 1864.
PUBLICATION Aurivillius C. 1904c. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 11. Lepidoptera Heterocera II. - Arkiv för Zoologi 2(4):1-68, pl. 1.
PAGINATION 7-8, fig. 16

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Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Cameroon   Aurivillius C. 1904c. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 11. Lepidoptera Heterocera II. - Arkiv för Zoologi 2(4):1-68, pl. 1. 8
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the East Kasai   RMCA
Gabon   Kiriakoff S. G. 1967a. Lépidoptères capturés par la Mission Biologique au Gabon. IV. Notodontidae (Deuxième partie). - Biologia Gabonica 3:335-359. 349

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