Caradrina oberthuri (Rothschild, 1913)

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FAMILY	Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY	Xyleninae
GENUS	Caradrina
SPECIES	oberthuri
AUTHOR	(Rothschild, 1913)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Athetis oberthuri sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Algeria], Central Western Sahara, South Oued Mya.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes 1♂, 3♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	Transferred to Caradrina by H. Hacker (2004a: 130).
PUBLICATION	Rothschild W. 1913b. Ernst Hartert's expedition to the central western Sahara. VII. Lepidoptera. - Novitates Zoologicae 20(1):109-143.
PAGINATION	126

Subspecies

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
oberthuri	(Rothschild, 1913)	Subspecies
persica	(Boursin, 1942)	Subspecies
apicimaculata	Rebel, 1948	Synonym of subspecies

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Algeria	Hoggar and Tassili	Speidel W. & Hassler M. 1989. Die Schmetterlingsfauna der südlichen algerischen Sahara und ihrer Hochgebirge Hoggar und Tassili n'Ajjer (Lepidoptera). - Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo Supplement 8:1-156.	91
Oman		Wiltshire E. P. 1977b. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1975. Lepidoptera: Part I Families Cossidae, Pyralidae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and Noctuidae. Part II A list of further Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Oman. Part III Pyral... - Journal of Oman Studies Special Rep. 1:155-178.	160
Saudi Arabia		Wiltshire E. P. 1952a. Lepidoptera recently taken in Arabia. - Bulletin of the Society Fouad I Entomology 36:135-174, pl. 1.	156 (as persica)
Sudan		Boursin Ch. 1942. Die Elaphria-Arten der 1937/38-Sammelreisen von Herrn Fred H. Brandt in Sud- und Nordost-Iran (Laristan, Iranisch-Belutchistan und Khorassan), nebst Beschreibung von 4 neuen Arten und mehreren Formen. - Zeitschrift der wiener entomologischen Gesellschaft 27(4):89-101, pls 6-9.
United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5-8.	7 (as persica)
Yemen		Hacker H. H. 2004a. Revision of the genus Caradrina Ochsenheimer, 1816, with notes on other genera of the tribus Caradrini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). - Esperiana 10:7-690, pls 1-27.	130

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