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

Genus:
Asymbata Gerstäcker, 1871 . Arch. Naturgesch. 37(1) : 360.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CALPINAE

Type-species:
Asymbata roseiventris Gerstäcker, 1871. Arch. Naturgesch. 37(1): 360.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by monotypy .

Type specimens:
Type(s) - female [KENYA]: L. Jipe, (? Depository)..

Notes:
Nye (1975) stated:-

A. roseiventris is a junior subjective synonym of Calesia zambesita Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 962.

Asymbata and Yoseiventris were both described again as new in Gerstaecker, 1873, Baron C. C. von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika 3 (2): 377, pl. 15) fig. 8.

Poole (1989) included PASIPEDA Walker, 1865; MECYRA Walker, 1865; ZIRONA Walker, 1869; ASYMBATA Gerstaecker, 1871; CARADANA Moore, 1884; and LECASIA Fawcett, 1916 as junior synonyms of CALESIA Guenée, 1852.


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