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Species Nyridela xanthocera - Hodges#8285.2

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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 Nyridela

Species xanthocera (Nyridela xanthocera - Hodges#8285.2)

Hodges Number

8285.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nyridela xanthocera (Walker, 1856)

Gymnelia xanthocera Walker, 1856

Mochloptera xanthocera

Numbers

Three species in Nyridela, all neotropical.

Range

Central America, at least as far north as Veracruz, Mexico

Remarks

Type locality given by Walker as "Brazil," but Godman & Salvin reported that the type specimen had no locality attached.

Print References

Krancevic, M., 2018. Nyridela xanthocera (Walker [Erebidae: Arctiinae] -- USA record from Texas. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 60(1): 43.

Godman & Salvin, 1884, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 58.

Hernández-Baz & Grados, 2004. Lista de los Ctenuchinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) del Estado de Veracruz, México y algunas notas sobre su riqueza en el Continente Americano. Folia Ent. Mex. 43 (2): 203-213

Walker, F., 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 7: 1603.

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Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 17 January, 2018 - 11:10pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Blocky
Last updated 23 August, 2018 - 1:36pm

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