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Virbia costata

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  • 1. 1, rue Roger Rameau F- 93110 Rosny sous Bois (France) correspondant au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Entomologie, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 2. Haute-Lande F- 33850 Léognan (France) correspondant au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Entomologie, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) mlaguerre @ wanadoo. fr.

Description

Virbia costata (Stretch, 1885)

Crocota costata Stretch, 1885: 103.

Crocota opelloides Graef, 1887: 42. — Type locality: [USA], Texas. — Type specimens: Described from 1 male and 1 female syntypes (?).

Crocota intermedia Graef, 1887: 42. — Type locality: [USA], Texas. — Type specimen: Holotype male (USNM).

Crocota parvula Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893b:140. — Type locality: [USA], Colorado. — Type specimen: Holotype male (USNM).

Holomelino cocciniceps Schaus, 1901b: 269. — Type locality: [USA], Colorado, Manitou. —Type specimens: Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).

Eubaphe pallipennis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918: 85. — Type locality: [USA], Col[orado], Glennwood Sp[rin]gs. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).

TYPE LOCALITY. — [USA], Texas.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).

REMARK

This taxon is common in the mountain ranges of Arizona and Texas along the Mexican border, and almost certainly present in Mexico (C. Schmidt pers. comm.).

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

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Stretch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Virbia
Species
costata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Virbia costata (Stretch, 1885) sec. Vincent & Laguerre, 2014

References

  • STRETCH R. H. 1885. - Descriptions of New Species of Heterocera. Entomologica Americana 1: 101 - 107.
  • GRAEF E. L. 1887. - Some new Bombycidae. Entomologica Americana 3: 41 - 43.
  • NEUMOEGEN B. & DYAR H. G. 1893 b. - Notes on Lithosiidae and Arctiidae with descriptions of new varieties. Entomological News 4: 138 - 143.
  • SCHAUS W. 1901 b. - New species of Heterocera From Tropical America I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 9: 40 - 48.
  • BARNES W. & MCDUNNOUGH J. B. 1918. - Notes and new species. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America 4 (2): 61 - 208.