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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Ctenuchina » Cisseps

Genus Cisseps

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers
Yellow-collared Scape Moth - Cisseps fulvicollis Yellow-collared Scape Moth or Virginia Ctenucha - Cisseps fulvicollis Cisseps fulvicollis 8267, Cisseps fulvicollis, Yellow-collared Scape Moth - Cisseps fulvicollis Erebidae: Cisseps fulvicollis - Cisseps fulvicollis Yellow-collared Scape Moth - Cisseps fulvicollis Insect on Fatsia bloom - Cisseps fulvicollis Black wings and orange head - Cisseps fulvicollis
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)
Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)
Subtribe Ctenuchina
Genus Cisseps
Other Common Names
Scape moths
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cisseps Franclemont, 1936
Explanation of Names
Origin of this name is unclear, but a good guess is that it is an anagram of the original name for this genus Scepsis!
These moths were originally classified in genus Scepsis. Thus "scape moth"? Himmelman, in MIACY says that "scape" refers to the long basal joint of the antenna. Die.net Dictionary says: Scape, n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. ? a staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. Scepter.] 1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like. 2. (Zool.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect. 3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 3 species: fulvicollis, packardii, wrightii .
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 13 July, 2010 - 10:11pm

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