Thacona expleta (Kiriakoff, 1962)

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FAMILY Notodontidae
SUBFAMILY Scranciinae
GENUS Thacona
SPECIES expleta
AUTHOR(Kiriakoff, 1962)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONScrancia expleta sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY[Democratic Republic of Congo], Katanga, Elisabethville [Lubumbashi], iv.1934, leg. Ch. Seydel.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES Latitude: -11°39'0" Longitude: 27°28'0"
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, RMCA.
STATUS Species
COMMENTTransferred to Thacona by A. Schintlmeister & T. Witt (2015: 20) by synonymizing Scrancia Holland, 1893 with Thacona Walker, 1864.
PUBLICATION Kiriakoff S. G. 1962d. Notodontidae africains nouveaux (Lepidoptera). IV. - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés 114:1-52, pls 1-6.
PAGINATION 24-25, fig. 28

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Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Kiriakoff S. G. 1962d. Notodontidae africains nouveaux (Lepidoptera). IV. - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés 114:1-52, pls 1-6. 25
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