Bepea Explained
Bepea is a moth genus in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae.[1]
The name Bepea is a replacement name, or nomen novum, proposed by Koçak & Kemal in 2007.[2] The new name was necessary because the previous genus name, Notesia Yamanaka, 1992, was a junior homonym of Notesia Casey, 1922, a genus of weevils.[3] Notesia Yamanaka, 1992, however, was also a replacement name, as the original name of the genus, Notaspis Warren, 1892, was a junior homonym of the mite genus Notaspis Hermann, 1804.[4]
The genus currently comprises two species: the type species, Bepea tranquillalis, was described by Julius Lederer in 1863. It is found in Indonesia,[1] Papua New Guinea[5] and Taiwan. A second species, Bepea pyraustalis, was transferred to the genus by Koçak & Kemal (2007).[2] It was described by Embrik Strand in 1918 in the genus Calamochrous based on specimens collected in Kankau and Kosempo on Taiwan.[1]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) . Nuss . Matthias . Landry . Bernard . Mally . Richard . Vegliante . Francesca . Tränkner . Andreas . Bauer . Franziska . Hayden . James . Segerer . Andreas . Schouten . Rob . Li . Houhun . Trofimova . Tatiana . Solis . M. Alma . Maria Alma Solis . De Prins . Jurate . Speidel . Wolfgang . 2003–2020 . 2020-09-24.
- Koçak . Ahmed Ömer . Kemal . Muhabbet . 2007 . Replacement names for some Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera) . Miscellaneous Papers . Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara . 105 . 5–7 .
- Casey . T. L. . 1922 . Studies in the rhynchophorous subfamily Barinae of the Brazilian fauna . Memoirs on the Coleoptera . 10 . 1–520.
- Book: Hermann, J.-F. . 1804 . Mémoire aptérologique . F. G. Levrault . Strasbourg . i–iv + 1–144, 9 plates.
- Kenrick, George H. (1907). "A List of Moths of the Family Pyralidae collected by A. E. Pratt in British New Guinea in 1902-3, with Descriptions of new Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1907 t.4: 79 pl. IV.
