Epitonga Fennah, 1954
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4503843 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4504023 |
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Epitonga Fennah, 1954 View in CoL
Epitonga Fennah, 1954: 462 View in CoL . Type species: Epitonga ferox Fennah, 1954 View in CoL (by original designation).
The genus Epitonga View in CoL was erected by FENNAH (1954) for a single species from the Solomon Islands (New Georgia Island) and distinguished by the peculiar convex “shoulders” (a strong bulge near to basal cell) of fore wings (in dorsal view), narrow metope, and leaf-shaped lateral margins of the narrow coryphe. According to Melichar’s illustration ( MELICHAR 1906: Fig. 42) Lollius gratiosus Melichar, 1906 View in CoL from New Guinea apparently belongs to Epitonga View in CoL as well.
The genus Lollius Stål, 1866 (= Okissus Matsumura, 1916 = Ecapelopterum Chan & Yang, 1994 ; synonymy after GNEZDILOV 2009) is characterized by a quite wide metope with two sublateral carinae joined in the shape of an inverse letter ‘V’ ( FENNAH 1954, GNEZDILOV 2009) and a quite wide coryphe without leaf-shaped lateral margins. The genus is widely distributed from Australia and New Guinea to Taiwan and the Ryukyus and currently includes 24 species ( BOURGOIN 2014).
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Epitonga Fennah, 1954
Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. & Constant, Jérôme 2014 |
Epitonga
FENNAH R. G. 1954: 462 |