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Genus:
Compsotata Prout, 1907
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Entomologist
40 : 109.
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Status:
Objective Replacement Name
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Homonyms:
1
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Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CUCULLIINAE
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Type-species:
Charidea
elegantissima
Guenée, 1852.
Hist. nat. Ins.
6: 61, pl.8, fig.12.
[(of Charidea Guenée, 1852)]
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Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by
Hampson
, 1906.
Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus.
6: 140.
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Type specimens:
Syntypes - 4 (male & female) [SOUTH AFRICA]: Cape of Good Hope, (? Depository).. |
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Notes:
Nye (1975) stated:-
Compsotata was proposed as the objective replacement name for Charidea Guenée, 1852.
Poole (1989) included CHARIDEA Guenée, 1852; and TIMAEA Saalmüller, 1891 as junior synonyms of COMPSOTATA Prout, 1907.
Poole (1989) included 2 species in the genus COMPSOTATA.
Learn more about Noctuidae in Wikipedia
Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) for references to COMPSOTATA and included species.
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Junior name(s):
Charidea Guenée, 1852: 60.
Timaea Saalmüller, 1891: 309.
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