Genus Mecytha Walker, 1855

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• Mecytha Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 5: 977-1257 [1128].

  Type species:

   Mecytha semicana Walker, 1855 by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1892. A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (moths). Sphinges and Bombyces. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 1 xii 951 pp. [527].

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Limacodidae. pp. 145-147 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [147] (Note #256: Mecytha Walker, 1855. Mecytha Walker has not been used as the valid name of a genus in recent literature. The species here included have the venation of the hindwing cell like that of Ecnomectena Turner, 1926, but the male antennae are bipectinate. M. fasciata (Walker, 1855) has been placed in Comana Walker, 1865 by Turner (1926c) (as Susica Walker, 1855) and Hering (1931) and M. dnophera (Turner, 1931) in Parasa Moore, [1860] by Turner (1931). If they were to be included in Comana Walker here, it would have to be replaced by Mecytha Walker, the older name)

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