Tethea
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Tethea (Tethea) or (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Noctua or Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775: 87. Type-locality: Austria, Vienna district. Noctua ypsilon-graecum Goeze, 1781: 253. Type-locality: Europe.
Phalaena (Noctua) gamma-graecum Retzius, 1783: 47. Type-locality: Europe.
Noctua consobrina Borkhausen, 1790: 66, pl. 6: 4b. Type-locality: Europe.
Noctua octogena Esper, 1791: 388, pl. 128: f5. Type-locality: Europe.
Noctua gemina Beckwith, 1794: 4, pl. 1: 4–6. Type-locality: Europe.
Palimpsestis rufa Houlbert, 1921: 148. Type-locality: Europe. Lectotype ♂ (BMNH). Palimpsestis or hela Rangnow, 1935: 205, pl. 3: 27a. Type-locality: Sweden, Lappland. Tethea or nigrescens Werny, 1966: 342, fig. 197. Type-locality: Germany, Saarbrücken. Holotype ♂ (CDS).
Remarks. The nominate subspecies is distributed from most part of Europe to Turkey, and represented in the continental part of East Asia by T. or terrosa (Graeser, 1888). Another subspecies, akanensis (Matsumura, 1933), is distributed in Japan.
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- Family
- Drepanidae
- Genus
- Tethea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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References
- Denis, M. & Schiffermuller, I. (1775) Ankundigung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlongen der Wienergegend. Augustin Bernardi, Wien, 323 pp., 3 pls.
- Goeze, J. A. E. (1781) Entomologische Beitrage zu des Ritter Linne Zwolften Ausgabe des Natursystems. Series 3, Vol. 3. Leipzig, 439 pp.
- Retzius, A. J. (1783) Caroli DeGeer Genera et Species Insectorum. S. L. Crusius, Lipsioe, 220 pp.
- Borkhausen, M. B. (1790) Scriba. Beitrage zu der Inseckten-Geschichte, 1, 1 - 280, plates 1 - 18.
- Esper, E. J. Ch. (1791 - 1805) Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Theil IV: Die Eulenphalene. Band II. Erlangen, Wolfgang Walthers, Abschnitt 1, 373 - 698, Abschnitt 2, 1 - 85.
- Beckwith, J. (1794) The history and descriptions of four new species of Phalaena. Transactions of the Linnean Society 2, 1 - 6, 1 plate.
- Houlbert, C. (1921) Revision monographique de la Famille des Cymatophoridae. In: Oberthur, C. (Ed.), Etudes de Lepidopterologie Comparee, 18 (2), 23 - 252.
- Rangnow, R. (1935) Neue Lepidopteren aus Lappland. Entomologische Rundschau, 52, 133 - 136, 175 - 176, 188 - 191, 202 - 205, 223 - 224, 233 - 234.
- Werny, K. (1966) Untersuchungen uber die Systematik der Tribus Thyatirini, Macrothyatirini und Tetheini (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae). Universitat Saabrucken, Saabrucken, 463 pp.
- Graeser, L. (1888) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Lepidopteren-Fauna des Amurlandes i. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 32, 33 - 153.
- Matsumura, S. (1933) New species of Cymatophoridae of Japan and Formosa. Insecta Matsumurana, 7 (4), 190 - 201.