Tribe Pericopini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Internet References

Faithful Beauty - Composia fidelissima - male

Faithful Beauty - Response to predators - Composia fidelissima - female

Day moth on thistle - Gnophaela latipennis

White spotted black diurnal moth - Gnophaela

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea

Family Arctiidae (Tiger Moths)

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger Moths)

Tribe Pericopini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly subfamily Pericopinae; treated as a tribe of Arctiinae by Kitching and Rawlins (1999) - see reference on Arctiinae page

Internet References

description of group (Matthew Barnes, Moths of Belize)

pinned adult image of Gnophaela vermiculata (CBIF)

classification as a tribe within Arctiinae (CBIF)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 January, 2006 - 4:16pm
Last updated 20 January, 2006 - 8:14pm

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