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Spilosoma virginica

  • 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

Spilosoma virginica (Fabricius, 1798)

Bombyx virginica Fabricius, 1798: 437.

Spilosoma fumosa Strecker, 1900: 28. — Type locality: [USA], N[ew] Y[ork], Batavia. — Type specimen: Holotype female (FMNH).

TYPE LOCALITY. — [North America] America boreali.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (ZMUC; 3 syntypes).

REMARK

Reported from Mexico by Beutelspacher (1996: 60).

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 395, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
FMNH , ZMUC
Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Spilosoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Species
virginica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Spilosoma virginica (Fabricius, 1798) sec. Laguerre, 2014

References

  • FABRICIUS J. C. 1798. - Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. Hafniae, Proft CG: 572 p.
  • STRECKER H. 1900. - Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations suppl. 3. Owen's steam book, Reading: 25 p.
  • BEUTELSPACHER C. R. 1996. - Catalogo de los lepidopteros de Mexico. Familia Arctiidae (III Parte) (Insecta: Lepidoptera). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia 24 (93): 55 - 80.