Rhotana pellax Fennah, 1967
Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 102
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Felipe |
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Rhotana pellax Fennah, 1967 |
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Rhotana pellax Fennah, 1967 View in CoL
Rhotana pellax Fennah, 1967: 52 View in CoL , figs. 100–105
( Figs. 74, 75)
Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective ( pellax = seductive) which remains unchanged in all gender forms.
Type material: Holotype ♂, SAMOA, Upolu , Siumu, II.1955, N.L.H. Krauss ( BPBM, # 7080).
Distribution. Samoa.
Diagnosis. Rhotana pellax Fennah shows similarities to R. marmorata Zelazny from South-East Asia. It can be separated from that species by orange markings on the head, pronotum and mesonotum, by the black forewing mark not reaching the hind margin at the tips of Ms1a and Ms1b, by the light infuscation on the remaining forewings being arranged in a different pattern, and by a sinuate process on the apical part of the male aedeagus. Both, R. pellax and R. marmorata also show similarities to the species of the Rhotana pavo species group.
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