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Nystaleinae moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): A morphological review of the subfamily

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  • 1. Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
  • 2. Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA / Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA / Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA ryan.stlaurent@colorado.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-5249
  • 3. Director, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska State Museum, U.S.A susan.weller@unl.edu; https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2210-6422
  • 4. Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia & Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia fagua@javeriana.edu.co; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1253-4416 *Corresponding author: lilianapradalara@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8108-9654 & Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

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Prada-Lara, Liliana, St Laurent, Ryan A., Weller, Susan, Fagua, Giovanny (2025): Nystaleinae moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): A morphological review of the subfamily. Zootaxa 5622 (1): 1-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5622.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5622.1.1

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