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References
- ↑ "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ↑ Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University
- ↑ The Canadian Entomologist 7 (11): 210
- ↑ Microleps.org
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