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Alexicles aspersa Grote 1883

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Description

Alexicles aspersa Grote, 1883

Alexicles aspersa Grote, 1883: 47.

TYPE LOCALITY. — USA, New Mexico.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (SMEK).

REMARK

Reported from Mexico by Turrent Díaz (1996: 84) and Ferguson et al. (2000).

Genus Estigmene Hübner, [1820] (Fig. 21H)

Estigmene Hübner, [1820] b: 184.

Leucarctia Packard, 1864: 124. — Type species: Phalaena acrea Drury, 1773.

TYPE SPECIES. — Phalaena acrea Drury, 1773, by subsequent designation by Kirby (1892).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SMEK
Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Alexicles
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Grote
Species
aspersa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Alexicles aspersa Grote, 1883 sec. Laguerre, 2014

References

  • GROTE A. R. 1883. - On the moths collected by Prof. Snow in New Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 8: 45 - 57.
  • TURRENT DIAZ R. T. 1996. - Parte IV, Familia Arctiidae, Subfamilia Arctiinae (Lepidoptera Noctuidea). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Lepidopterologia 16 (2): 68 - 100.
  • FERGUSON D. C., OPLER P., SMITH M., & DONAHUE J. P. 2000. - Moths of western North America 3. Distribution of Arctiidae of western North America. Part 1. Text, maps, and references. Contributions of the CP Gillette Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity.
  • PACKARD A. S. 1864. - Synopsis of the Bombycidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 97 - 130.
  • DRURY D. 1773. - Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty Figures of Exotic Insects, according to their different Genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect: interspersed with remark and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. Vol. II. White B Publishers, London: 90 p. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12137
  • KIRBY W. F. 1892. - A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths) I Sphinges and Bombyces. Gurney & Jackson, London: 951 p. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9152