Published December 31, 1758
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Phalaena cossus Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
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Phalaena cossus [spec. nov.]
P. Bombyx elinguis, alis deflexis nebulosis, thorace fascia postica atra.
Mer. eur. 3. t. 36.
Habitat in Ligno putrescente.
Larva subpilosa, rubra, dorso sanguineo, capite nigro.
Romanis in hoc luxuria esse coepit, praegrandesque Roborum vermes delicatiore sunt in cibo, Cossos vocant, atque etiam farina saginati; hi quoque altiles fiunt. Plin. XVII: 24.
* * * * * Bombyces spirilingues Alis patulis.
Notes
Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 504-505, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Phalaena
- Species
- cossus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- spec. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phalaena cossus Linnaeus, 1758