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Similipepsis

Number: 26951.0
Author: Le Cerf
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106649#page/340/mode/2up
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Similipepsis
Journal: Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris
Year: 1911
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 304
Ref Id: 3438.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Tinthiinae
Superfamily: Cossoidea
Tribe: Similipepsini
Volume: 17
Type Country: [GABON] CONGO FRANCAIS
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Sam-Quito and N'Jolé district
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Cerf
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106649#page/340/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris
Type Sp Page: 304, text-fig.3, pl.5, fig.5
Type Sp Volume: 17
Type Sp Year: 1911
Type Sp Ref Id: 6852.0
Type Sp Genus: Similipepsis
Type Sp: violaceus
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=SIMILIPEPSIS', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesiidae', 'http://www.sesiidae.net/Checklst.htm']
Memo: Similipepsis Le Cerf, 1911 was designated as the type-genus for the new tribe Similipepsini (Tinthiinae - Sesiidae), by Spatenka, Lastuvka, Gorbunov, Tosevski & Arita, 1993, Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 14 (2) : 86. SIMILIPEPSIS was included within the subfamily SESIIDAE: TINTHIINAE by Kristensen (1999). See also Checklist of the Sesiidae of the world (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) by Dr. Franz Pühringer.

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c