Maxera oblita ( Moore, 1882 )

Joshi, Rahul, Zahiri, Reza, Banerjee, Diya & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5635 (1), pp. 1-247 : 64

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5635.1.1

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Maxera oblita ( Moore, 1882 )
status

 

29. Maxera oblita ( Moore, 1882) View in CoL : 176 ( Thermesia )

TL: Parasnath

Distribution: India (Jharkhand, Meghalaya).

Genus Melanephia Le Cerf, 1922: 426 View in CoL

TS: Melanephia cinereovariegata Le Cerf, 1922: 426 View in CoL , f. 9, by monotypy.

= Melanephia Hampson, 1926: 74 View in CoL (TS: Anophia nigrescens Wallengren, 1856: 64 ).A junior homonym of Melanephia Le Cerf, 1922 View in CoL . This generic name probably originated from Hampson, but was attributed to Warren by Le Cerf. It was used and unintentionally made nomenclaturally available by Le Cerf prior to its proposal and generic description by Hampson for a similar concept but having a different type species. There is no objective replacement name but A. nigrescens is congeneric with Melanephia cinereovariegata Le

Cerf, 1922, the type-species of Melanephia ( Nye 1975) View in CoL .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Maxera

Loc

Maxera oblita ( Moore, 1882 )

Joshi, Rahul, Zahiri, Reza, Banerjee, Diya & Singh, Navneet 2025
2025
Loc

Melanephia

Hampson, G. F. 1926: 74
1926
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