''Prototheora'' is a genus of moths. It is the only genus of the Prototheoridae, or the African primitive ghost moths, a
family
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of
insects in the
lepidoptera
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n
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, contained in the
superfamily
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Hepialoidea. These moths are
endemic
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to
Southern Africa
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.
Diversity and distribution
Members of the genus ''Prototheora'' are found in
South Africa
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(Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen ''et al.'', 2000),
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(''Prototheora angolae'') and the
Mulanje Massif
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of
Malawi
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(Davis, 2001). See also revisions by Janse (1942) and Davis (1996).
List of species
*''
Prototheora parachlora''
(Meyrick, 1919) (originally in ''Metatheora'')
**=''Prototheora paraglossa'';
Janse, 1942
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Prototheora petrosema''
Meyrick, 1917
*''
Prototheora monoglossa''
Meyrick, 1924
*''
Prototheora corvifera''
(Meyrick, 1920) (originally in ''Metatheora'')
*''
Prototheora merga
''Prototheora merga'' is a species of moth of the family Prototheoridae. It is found in South Africa, where it is only known from the Schoemanspoort in the Cape Province.
The wingspan
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Davis, 1996
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Prototheora quadricornis''
Meyrick, 1920
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Prototheora biserrata''
Davis, 1996
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Prototheora serruligera''
Meyrick, 1920
*''
Prototheora cooperi''
Janse, 1942
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Prototheora geniculata''
Davis, 1996
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Prototheora drackensbergae''
Davis, 1996
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Prototheora angolae''
Davis, 1996
*''
Prototheora malawiensis''
Davis, 2001
References
*Davis, D.R. (1996). A revision of the southern African family Prototheoridae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea). ''Entomologica Scandinavica'', 27: 393-439.
*Davis, D.R. (2001). A new species of ''Prototheora'' from Malawi, with additional notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus (Lepidoptera: Prototheoridae). ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington'': 103(2): 452-45
Abstract*Janse, A.J.T. (1942). ''The moths of South Africa. Volume IV, part 1. Jugatae'' 78 pp.
*Kristensen, N.P. (1999)
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Events
By place
Europe
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The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–62 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
*Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) ''Journal of Natural History'', 34(6): 823-87
Abstract
Sources
External links
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Hepialoidea
Exoporia genera
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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