Artitropa Holland 1896 ...

Artitropa sp. SCC03 This is an undescribed endemic Madagascan species discovered by ABRI collectors at Mont d'Ambre, which has been referred to in unpublished reports as A. hollandi. T.B. Larsen (pers. comm.) will describe it as new. The yellow hyaline markings at the apex of the hind wing suggest affinities with no other known Artitropa species (Figure 39); however, these markings are not present on the only other specimen reared. T.B. Larsen (pers. comm. 2014) has examined these markings under a microscope and notes they are well defined, fully scaled and symmetrical. Life history. The food... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Cock, Matthew J. W.
Congdon, T. Colin E.
Collins, Steve C.
Dokumenttyp: Taxonomic treatment
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Biodiversity / Taxonomy / Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Lepidoptera / Hesperiidae / Artitropa
Sprache: unknown
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6527964

Artitropa sp. SCC03 This is an undescribed endemic Madagascan species discovered by ABRI collectors at Mont d'Ambre, which has been referred to in unpublished reports as A. hollandi. T.B. Larsen (pers. comm.) will describe it as new. The yellow hyaline markings at the apex of the hind wing suggest affinities with no other known Artitropa species (Figure 39); however, these markings are not present on the only other specimen reared. T.B. Larsen (pers. comm. 2014) has examined these markings under a microscope and notes they are well defined, fully scaled and symmetrical. Life history. The food plant found by ABRI collectors at Mont d'Ambre is a Dracaena spp., a larger species than used by Artitropa sp. SCC01 and A. boseae, resembling the mainland D. steudneri, although the location and forest habitat suggests that both may be Clade A of Buerki et al. (2009). The yellow-brown head of the final instar caterpillar (Figure 40) has large black spots: a central spot placed over the top of the adfrontals and ... : 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 page 343, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253532 ...