Polypoetes augustimacula

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Polypoetes augustimacula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Polypoetes
Species:
P. augustimacula
Binomial name
Polypoetes augustimacula
(Dognin, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Phaeochlaena augustimaculaDognin, 1902

Polypoetes augustimacula is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

It is one of the largest species in the genus Polypoetes . The female type, the only known specimen, has a forewing length of 22 mm.

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Polypoetes obtusa is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Brazil.

Polypoetes selenia is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Brazil.

Polypoetes semicoerulea is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

Polypoetes sublucens is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

Polypoetes suffumosa is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Argentina.

Polypoetes trimacula is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Polypoetes etearchus is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found in south-western Costa Rica and north-western Panama.

Polypoetes albicuneata is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

Polypoetes rufipuncta is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in south-eastern Brazil.

Polypoetes aborta is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

Polypoetes persimilis is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in cloud forests on the eastern slope of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador, at elevations between 2,000 and 3,200 meters.

Polypoetes villiodes is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Colombia.

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