Melphinyet Larsen, 2012

Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, Colin E., 2013, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders, Zootaxa 3724 (1), pp. 1-85 : 49

Melphinyet Larsen, 2012

Larsen (2012) critically evaluated the genus Melphina and described two new genera for species which had been placed in Melphina . One of these was Melphinyet , established with M. flavina (Evans) as type species and four other species.

Evans (1937) treated tarace Mabille , flavina Evans , unistriga Holland and statirides Holland as four forms of tarace . Evans (1956) presents T.H.E. Jackson’s observation that tarace , flavina and unistriga should be regarded as species since the forms fly together, are easily separable and do not intergrade, but did not accept this view. Subsequently, Lindsey & Miller (1965) agreed with Jackson’s view and formally raised all four to valid species separated by differences of the male genitalia.