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| Mocis mayeri | |
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| From KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Mocis |
| Species: | M. mayeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833) | |
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Mocis mayeri is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.[1] It has a wide range in Africa, which includes Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Réunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, the Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is also found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.[2]
Etymology
[edit]Boisduval dedicated this species to Mr. Gustave Mayer from Mauritius.[3]
References
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- ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Mocis mayeri (Boisduval 1833)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Mocis mayeri (Boisduval, 1833)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ↑ Boisduval, J. B. A. (1833). Faune entomologique de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice: 104.