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Species Apantesis behrii - Grammia behrii - Hodges#8179.3

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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 Arctiina
Genus Apantesis
Species behrii (Grammia behrii - Hodges#8179.3)
Hodges Number
8179.3
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Apantesis behrii (Stretch, 1872)
Arctia behrii Stretch, 1872
Arctia shastanensis French, 1881
Explanation of Names
Apantesis behrii (Stretch, 1872) is elevated from synonymy of G. nevadensis, in Ferguson & Schmidt (2007), Zootaxa, 1405: 39-49. This species was formerly in the genus Grammia, Systematic Entomology: 41(4): 844-853.
Print References
Ferguson, D.C. & B.C. Schmidt, 2007. Taxonomic review of the Grammia nevadensis species group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) with descriptions of` two new species. Zootaxa, 1405: 39-49.
Ronka, K., J. Mappes, L. Kaila, N. Wahlberg, 2016. Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology, 41(4): 844-853.