Perrotia ismael Oberthür, 1916

Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, T. Colin E., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders, Zootaxa 3872 (4), pp. 301-354 : 327

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FECCFC1-7CA9-4A90-B881-4BD40157AD99

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680998

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87B3-FFDC-351B-FF79-F9F72352D825

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Plazi

scientific name

Perrotia ismael Oberthür, 1916
status

 

Perrotia ismael Oberthür, 1916

This species, formerly placed in Miraja , is now placed in Perrotia ( Lees et al. 2003) . It is another rare species in collections, known only from a handful of specimens ( Evans 1937, Viette 1956). S.C. Collins (pers. comm. 2014) reared a specimen from a ‘largish bamboo’ 10km east of Anjozorobe (north-east of Antananarivo), 8–10 Apr 2003. Unfortunately documentation is not available, but the preserved emerged pupa is 18mm long; brown, darker on head and thorax; flattened frontally; shelter lined with white waxy powder. The final instar head capsule is oval, brown, darker on posterior margin and epicranial suture, but details are not clear due to white waxy powder.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Perrotia

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