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Lepidoptera > Pyraloidea > Crambidae > Glaphyriinae > Erpis

Erpis macularis Walker, 1863

Erpis macularis

Erpis macularis
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  1. OD : Erpis macularis Walker, 1863. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, pt 27, pg. 133. TL: Borneo. Text at  https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso2728brit/page/133/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Robinson, G.S., K.R.Tuck, M. Shaffer & K. Cook. 1994. The Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 308 pp., 51 figs., 32 pls. Pg. 171, Pl. 29/1. 
  3. Nuss, M., 1998. The Scopariinae and Heliothelinae stat. rev.(Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae) of the Oriental Region–a revisional synopsis with descriptions of new species from the Philippines and Sumatra. Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo suppl, 17, pp.475-528. Pg. 508. 
  4. rungbam, J.S., M.S. Chib & K. Wangdi, 2016. Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan (Lepidoptera). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (3): 355-382G.  Figure 4F.
  5. Li, W.C., 2018. Erpis Walker, 1863 a new record to the fauna of China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 46(184), pp.643-646.
  6. http://pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?erpis
  7. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=349809
  8. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.1_Scopariinae/60_Erpis/Erpis%20macularis/Erpis%20macularis.htm
Note: The only known member of this genus globally. Subfamily placement in Glaphyriinae is based on Nuss et al. (2022) at http://globiz.pyraloidea.org. Robinson et al. (1994) placed this genus in Pyralidae, Scopariinae, Scopariini. Whitaker et al. (2014) place this in subfamily Scopariinae at http://pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?erpis. 

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Anonymous. 2022. Erpis macularis Walker, 1863. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/358353/Erpis-macularis
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