Arsissa transvaalica

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Arsissa transvaalica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Arsissa
Species:
A. transvaalica
Binomial name
Arsissa transvaalica
Balinsky, 1991 [1] [2]

Arsissa transvaalica is a species of snout moth in the genus Arsissa . It was described by Boris Balinsky in 1991 and is known from Namibia [2] and South Africa. [3]

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Boris Ivan Balinsky was a Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist, entomologist, professor of Kiev University and University of the Witwatersrand. Pioneer researcher in the field of experimental embryology, electron microscopy and developmental biology. He was author of popular textbook in embryology An Introduction to Embryology.

References

  1. Balinsky, B.I. (1991). "New and inadequately described genera and species of Phycitinae (Pyralidae, Lepidoptera) from southern Africa". South African Journal of Zoology. 26 (3): 93–114. doi: 10.1080/02541858.1991.11448239 .
  2. 1 2 "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  3. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Arsissa transvaalica Balinsky, 1991". Afromoths. Retrieved November 13, 2017.