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- Thyretes Boisduval, 1847
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Thyretes Boisduval, 1847; in Delegorgue, Voyage Afr. australe, 2: 596, TS: Sphinx hippotes Cramer
Eressades Bethune-Baker, 1911; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 7 (41): 531, TS: Eressades flavipunctata Bethune-Baker
Thyretes ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 137
Cape Colony
Sphinx hippotes Cramer, [1780]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (23-24): pl. 286, f. A
Thyretes hippotes ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 137, f. 56
Cape Colony, Zululand. See [About maps]
Thyretes montana Boisduval, 1847; in Delegorgue, Voyage Afr. australe, 2: 597
Thyretes montana ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 138, pl. 6, f. 7
Cape Colony, Delagoa Bay
Thyretes caffra Wallengren, 1863; Wien ent. Monats. 7: 138
Thyretes caffra ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 138, . 57
Sierra Leone, Nyasaland, Abyssinia. See [About maps]
Thyretes negus Oberthür, 1878; Étud. d'Ent. 3 : 31, pl. 3, f. 2
Thyretes phasma Butler, [1897]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 : 846
= ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 139
Thyretes negus ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 139
W.Africa, Angola. See [About maps]
Thyretes monteiroi Butler, 1876; J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 12 (60-62) : 359, TL: W.Africa, Ambriz
Eressades flavipunctata Bethune-Baker, 1911; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 7 (41): 531, TL: Angola, N'Dalla Tando
Thyretes monteiroï ; Hampson, 1898, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1 : 139
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- References:
- [About maps]
- Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
- [BHL]
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- Some related literature:
- Bethune-Baker, 1911
- Descriptions of new African Heterocera
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 7
(41): 530-552,
(42): 553-576
- Boisduval, 1847
- Catalogue des Lépidoptères recuellis par M. Delegorgue, 1833-1844
in Delegorgue, Voyage Afr. australe, 2: 585-614
- Butler, 1876
- Notes on the Lepidoptera of the family Zygaenidae, with descriptions of new genera and species
J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 12 (60-62)
: 342-407, pl. 27-28
- Butler, [1897]
- On two collections of lepidoptera made by Mr R. Crawshay in Nyasa-land
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896
: 817-850, pl. 41-42
- Cramer, [1780]
- Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques)
Uitl. Kapellen 3
(17-21): 1-104, pl. 193-252 (1779),
(22): 105-128, pl. 253-264 ([1780]),
(23-24): 129-176, pl. 265-288 (1780)
- Hampson, 1898
- Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 1: Syntomidae
Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1
: i-xxi, 1-559, pl. 1-17
- Oberthür, 1878
- Faune des Lépidoptères de la côte orientale d'Afrique
Étud. d'Ent. 3
: 11-36, pl. 1-3
- Wallengren, 1863
- Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen (1-3)
Wien ent. Monats.
4: 33-46,161-176 (1860),
7: 137-151 (1863)
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