Artitropa Holland 1896

Artitropa sp. SCC04 In Nov 2006, SCC found distinctive caterpillars of an unknown species of Artitropa at Anjozorobe, about 100km north of Antananarivo, central Madagascar. Caterpillars were not successfully reared but they are completely distinct from any other species of Artitropa sp. that we have seen. They may represent A. alaotrana, A. hollandi or an undescribed species. However, even though this may prove to be a known species, to minimise confusion with undescribed taxa treated in this paper, it is referred to here as Artitropa sp. SCC04. The food plant was a narrow-leaved Dracaena sp.... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Cock, Matthew J. W.
Congdon, T. Colin E.
Collins, Steve C.
Dokumenttyp: other
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Schlagwörter: Biodiversity / Taxonomy / Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Lepidoptera / Hesperiidae / Artitropa
Sprache: unknown
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Artitropa sp. SCC04 In Nov 2006, SCC found distinctive caterpillars of an unknown species of Artitropa at Anjozorobe, about 100km north of Antananarivo, central Madagascar. Caterpillars were not successfully reared but they are completely distinct from any other species of Artitropa sp. that we have seen. They may represent A. alaotrana, A. hollandi or an undescribed species. However, even though this may prove to be a known species, to minimise confusion with undescribed taxa treated in this paper, it is referred to here as Artitropa sp. SCC04. The food plant was a narrow-leaved Dracaena sp. also used by other relatively small Artitropa spp. species in Madagascar. The final instar caterpillar (Figure 37) has the head yellow brown with small dark spots at the top of the adfrontals, on the epicranium just below the apex, laterally and over the stemmata; the anal plate is darker than the body, with a white margin. Pupae were not obtained. ; Published as part of Cock, Matthew J. W., Congdon, T. Colin E. & Collins, Steve C., 2015, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 8. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dracaena Feeders, pp. 301-348 in Zootaxa 3985 (3) on pages 341-342, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3985.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253532