Genus Nacopa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited

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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Genus Nacopa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nacopa Barnes & Benjamin, 1924

Transferred to Noctuinae from Amphipyrinae by Keegan et al. (2019) without tribal assignment (1).

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed two species of Nacopa in America, north of Mexico. (2)

Nacopa bistrigata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)

Nacopa melanderi Barnes & Benjamin, 1927

Works Cited

1.	Towards resolving and redefining Amphipyrinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae): a massively polyphyletic taxon Kevin L. Keegan, James Donald Lafontaine, Niklas Wahlberg, David L. Wagner. 2019. Systematic Entomology, 44: 451-464.

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 July, 2013 - 6:27pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 10 March, 2019 - 8:05pm

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