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Taxonomy
Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
Nomenclature
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Tribe: "Polyptychus genus-group"Genus: Pseudoclanis
Species:
Pseudoclanis molitor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1912)
Usage:
valid
Reference:
Type data:
HOLOTYPE ♀ Nigeria: Benue R[iver], Ibi (H.A. Foy) [NHMUK].
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Pseudoclanis by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 27. Implicitly returned to Polyptychus by Pierre, Bull Soc. ent. Fr. 106: 264. Transferred to Larunda by Eitschberger, 2007, Neue Ent. Nachr. 60: 106, who failed to notice that Larunda Kernbach, 1954 was an unavailable junior homonym. Returned to Pseudoclanis by Haxaire & Melichar, 2011, European Ent. 3: 159.
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Synonyms: 5