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Amaxia pyga Schaus 1892

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Description

Amaxia pyga Schaus, 1892

Amaxia pyga Schaus, 1892: 279.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype female no.11 040 designated by Watson (1971: 78) (USNM).

Notes

Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & 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 178, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Schaus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Amaxia
Species
pyga
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Amaxia pyga Schaus, 1892 sec. Vincent & Laguerre, 2014

References

  • SCHAUS W. 1892. - Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Brazil, Mexico and Peru. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892: 272 - 291.
  • WATSON A. 1971. - An Illustrated Catalogue of the Neotropic Arctiinae Types in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 50: 1 - 361.