Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Seseria Matsumura, 1919 . Thousand Insects Japan 3 : 683.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
HESPERIOIDEA : HESPERIIDAE : PYRGINAE : PYRGINI

Type-species:
Suastus nigroguttatus Matsumura, 1910. Ent. Z., Frankf. a.M. 23: 181.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by original designation .

Type specimens:
See BHL scanned Type-species page: .

Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-

The taxon represented by the nominal species Suastus nigroguttatus Matsumura is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species Satarupa formosana Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Int. ent. Z. 3 : 149).

The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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