Ophiusa cancellata (Saalmüller, 1891)

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FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Erebinae
GENUS	Ophiusa
SPECIES	cancellata
AUTHOR	(Saalmüller, 1891)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Toxocampa Cancellata n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	Madagascar, Nossi Be.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♀, SNMF; the original specimen in MNUL was completely destroyed (see Anonymous 1946: 151, P. Viette 1990b: 403).
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Saalmüller M. & von Heyden L. 1891. Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. - — :247-531, pls 7-14.
PAGINATION	414-416; pl. 11, fig. 186

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
melaconisia	Hampson, 1905	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	East Kasai	Berio E. 1965a. Le Catocaline Africane a tibie spinose del Museo di Tervuren. - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 75:181-332, pl. 18.	252
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga		RMCA
Gambia			R. Goff
Madagascar	Nosy Bé	Saalmüller M. & von Heyden L. 1891. Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. - — :247-531, pls 7-14.	416
Mali			NHMO
South Africa	Gauteng		TMSA (as melaconisia)
South Africa	Mpumalanga		TMSA (as melaconisia)
Uganda		Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. - — 12:i-xiii, 1-626.	450
Zambia		Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910(2):388-510, pls 36-41.	420
Zimbabwe		Hampson G. F. 1905b. The moths of South Africa (part III). - Annals of the South African Museum 3(9):389-438.	431 (as melaconisia)

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