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Amastus ambrosia

  • 1. Haute-Lande F- 33850 Léognan (France) correspondant au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Entomologie, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) mlaguerre @ wanadoo. fr.

Description

Amastus ambrosia (Druce, 1890)

Phaegoptera ambrosia Druce, 1890b: 498.

Amastus peralta Seitz, 1925: 418. — Type locality: Colombia, [Tolima], Monte Tolima. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (SMF; one male syntype labeled TYPUS).

Amastus thermidora Dognin, 1913: 4. — Type locality: Ecuador, [Loja], environs de Loja. — Type specimen: Holotype female no. 30 404 (USNM).

TYPE LOCALITY. — [Colombia], Antioquia, Frontino.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (BMNH; one female syntype labeled TYPE).

Notes

Published as part of Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 300, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , SMF , USNM
Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Amastus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Druce
Species
ambrosia
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Amastus ambrosia (Druce, 1890) sec. Laguerre, 2014

References

  • DRUCE H. 1890 b. - Descriptions of some new Species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Central and South America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 493 - 520.
  • DOGNIN P. 1913. - Heteroceres nouveaux de l'Amerique du Sud. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 22: 1 - 54.