Aristaria

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Aristaria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Herminiinae
Genus: Aristaria
Guenée, 1854

Aristaria is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. [1] [2] It is monotypic, containing only the species Aristaria theroalis, which is found in the United States and Costa Rica. [3]

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Eulepidotinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae. Adult males in the subfamily have midtibial tufts of hairs. Adult females have the ostial opening located between the seventh and eighth abdominal sternites instead of located anteriorly on the seventh sternite.

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References

  1. Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 26. Bibcode:2010ZooK...40....1L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 .
  2. Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x .
  3. Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (January 1, 2006). "Aristaria theroalis". barcodinglife.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-03-04.