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Genus Lychnosea

Lychnosea intermicata Moth - Lychnosea intermicata - female Moth - Lychnosea intermicata Lychnosea intermicata - male moth rose-brown & yellow - Lychnosea helveolaria - female Yellowish Moth - Lychnosea intermicata Erastria cruentaria?? - Lychnosea helveolaria - male Moth: Sicya? - Lychnosea helveolaria Lychnosea helveolaria - female
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Ennominae
Tribe Ourapterygini
Genus Lychnosea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lychnosea Grote, 1883
Numbers
There are two named Lychnosea species in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)
Lychnosea helveolaria
Lychnosea intermicata
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1883. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 38: 52. (3)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 13 August, 2006 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 4 April, 2013 - 1:14pm

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