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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Cerurinae » Americerura

Genus Americerura

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Black-Etched Prominent Larva, 5th instar - Americerura scitiscripta Black-Etched Prominent - Cerura scitiscripta - Americerura scitiscripta Cerura scitiscripta - Americerura scitiscripta Moth for ID - Americerura scitiscripta Tecmessa scitiscripta (Black-Etched Prominent) - Americerura scitiscripta Unknown caterpillar - Americerura scitiscripta Cerura scitiscripta ? - Americerura scitiscripta Americerura scitiscripta
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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Cerurinae
Genus Americerura
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tecmessa Burmeister, 1878 (a genus now known to belong to Heterocampinae, new genus Americerura St Laurent & Goldstein, 2023 was therefore proposed for the members of Cerurinae formally assigned to Tecmessa)
Cerura of authors not Schrank, 1802
Print References
Schintlmeister, A., 2013. Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera)‬. World Catalogue of Insects, 11: 1-608.

St Laurent, R. A., Goldstein, P. Z., Miller, J. S., Markee, A., Staude, H. S., Kawahara, A. Y., Miller, S. E., Robbins, R. K. 2023. Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus, Insect Systematics and Diversity, 7(2)3, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad004
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Ryan St Laurent
Last updated 7 April, 2023 - 6:36am

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