Paracles uruguayensis

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Paracles uruguayensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Paracles
Species:
P. uruguayensis
Binomial name
Paracles uruguayensis
(Berg, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Palustra uruguayensisBerg, 1886

Paracles uruguayensis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Carlos Berg in 1886. It is found in Uruguay.

Adults have a pale grey-yellow pattern.

Taxonomy

The species was synonymised with Paracles vulpina by George Hampson in 1901. Research in 2014 concluded it is a valid species. [1]

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. Beccacece, Hernán M.; Vincent, Benoit & Navarro, Fernando R. (2014). "The type-material of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) described by Burmeister and Berg in the collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires, Argentina)". ZooKeys (421): 65–89. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.421.6666 . PMC   4109471 . PMID   25061380.