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Lepidopalpus

Number: 15750.0
Author: Janse
Family: Lymantriidae
Genus: Lepidopalpus
Journal: Ann. Transv. Mus.
Year: 1915
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 5 [key], 9
Ref Id: 10122.0
Status: Available name
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 5
Type Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: [Cape Province], Ngqeleni
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Janse
Type Sp Journal: Ann. Transv. Mus.
Type Sp Page: 10, pl.1, fig.4, pl.3, fig.15
Type Sp Volume: 5
Type Sp Year: 1915
Type Sp Ref Id: 10122.0
Type Sp Genus: Lepidopalpus
Type Sp: hyalina
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymantriidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=LEPIDOPALPUS']
Memo: Fletcher (1979) stated:- This genus was included by Hering, 1926, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 14: 124 in the Pterothysanidae, but was restored to the Lymantriidae, in which family it was originally proposed, by Collenette, 1955, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 107: 191. Watson, Fletcher & Nye (1980) stated:- Lepidopalpus was established in the Lymantriidae; it was placed in the Pterothysanidae by Hering, 1926, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 14: 124; and was restored to the Lymantriidae by Collenette, 1955, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 107: 191.

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