Clytie arenosa Rothschild, 1913

FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Erebinae
GENUS	Clytie
SPECIES	arenosa
AUTHOR	Rothschild, 1913
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Clytie arenosa sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	Algeria, Central West Sahara, South Oued Mya.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Lectotype ♂, designated by H. Hacker (2001: 348), genitalia slide 8246♂, BMNH; Paralectotypes 4♀, genitalia slide E. P. Wiltshire 581♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	The 3 remaining female syntypes in fact belong to Clytie sancta (Staudinger, 1900) (see H. Hacker 2001: 348).
PUBLICATION	Rothschild W. 1913b. Ernst Hartert's expedition to the central western Sahara. VII. Lepidoptera. - Novitates Zoologicae 20(1):109-143.
PAGINATION	128

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
nabataea	Hampson, 1913	Synonym of species
seifersi	Gaede, 1933	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Algeria	Hoggar and Tassili	Rothschild W. 1915a. On the Lepidoptera collected in 1913-1914 by Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg on a journey to the Hoggar Mountains (Sahara). - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 16(94):247-258; (95): 392-402.	254
Mauritania		Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1-742; (2): 1-430.	372
Western Sahara		Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. - Alexanor 17:335-382.	369

Notes: Palaearctic: Algeria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Tamaricaceae	Tamarix jordana	Israel	Kravchenko V. D., Fibiger M., Hausmann A. & Müller G. C. 2007a. The Lepidoptera of Israel. Volume 1. Erebidae. - — 1.
Tamaricaceae	Tamarix senegalensis	Israel	Kravchenko V. D., Fibiger M., Hausmann A. & Müller G. C. 2007a. The Lepidoptera of Israel. Volume 1. Erebidae. - — 1.