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(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)
Muschampia (Muschampia) alta (Schwingenschuss, 1942)
Synonyms
[ORIG]
Hesperia proto ssp. alta Schwingenschuss, 1942. Z. Wien. Entomol.-Ver. 27(8): 182.
TL: Taormina (Messina prov., Sicily, Italy).
Notes
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Taxonomic note. Muschampia alta (Schwingenschuss, 1942), comb. & stat. nov. in: Hinojosa & al., 2021. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 193: 854-855.
Bibliography
Schwingenschuss L. 1942.
Eine Falterausbeute aus Sizilien. I. Teil. Macrolepidoptera. Zeitschrift des Wiemer Entomologen-Vereines 27(8): 177-184. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia proto alta.
Reference publications
Hinojosa J. C., Dapporto L., Brockmann E., Dincă V., Tikhonov V., Grishin N., Lukhtanov V. A. & Vila R. 2021.
Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2021(193): 847-859, fig. (url)
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