Thacona modesta (Holland, 1893)

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FAMILY Notodontidae
SUBFAMILY Scranciinae
GENUS Thacona
SPECIES modesta
AUTHOR(Holland, 1893)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONS.[crancia] modesta, sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY[Gabon], Valley of the Ogooué River, leg. A. C. Good.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Syntypes ♂, ♀ [number not stated], CMNH.
STATUS Species
COMMENTTransferred to Thacona by A. Schintlmeister & T. Witt (2015: 20) by synonymizing Scrancia Holland, 1893 with Thacona Walker, 1864.
PUBLICATION Holland W. J. 1893a. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera. - Psyche 6(201):373-376, 393-400, 411-418, 431-434, 451-454, 469-476 (…) 549-552, 565-568, pls 10, 17, 18, 20, 21.
PAGINATION 537; pl. 17, fig. 33

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
orientalis (Kiriakoff, 1962) Synonym of species

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. 7
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the   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. 22
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the East Kasai   RMCA
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Equateur   RMCA
Côte d'Ivoire   Kiriakoff S. G. 1968b. Lépidoptères capturés par la Mission biologique au Gabon. IV. Notodontidae (Troisième partie). - Biologia Gabonica 4(1):27-71. 1444
Gabon   Holland W. J. 1893a. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera. - Psyche 6(201):373-376, 393-400, 411-418, 431-434, 451-454, 469-476 (…) 549-552, 565-568, pls 10, 17, 18, 20, 21. 537

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Burseraceae Canarium schweinfurthii East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195. 180