Prothysana felderi

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Prothysana felderi
Tarchon felderi (Shag-carpet caterpillar).jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Apatelodidae
Genus: Prothysana
Species:
P. felderi
Binomial name
Prothysana felderi
(Druce, 1887 [1] )
Synonyms
  • Tarchon felderiDruce, 1887
  • Zolessia felderi

Prothysana felderi is a moth in the family Apatelodidae, whose larvae are known as shag-carpet caterpillars. It is found from Mexico, south to Panama and into South America, at least to Ecuador.

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Taxonomy

Vitor Osmar Becker included Compsa saturata and Mimallo trilunula as synonyms of Prothysana terminalis in 2001, but excluded Prothysana felderi from this synonymy, retaining it as a separate species. [2] Kitching et al. 2018 places the genus in family Apatelodidae. [1]

Biology

Recorded food plants for the two species of Prothysana (whose larvae cannot be distinguished from one another) include Philodendron , Heliconia , Welfia georgii , Chamaedora tepejilote , Piptocarpha poeppigiana , Pentaclethra macroloba , Stigmaphyllon lindinianum , Piper colonense , Piper hispidum , Piper auretum , Piper peltata , Neea psychotroides , Lycianthes synanthera , Heliocarpus appendiculatus , Miriocarpa longipes and Aegifila falcata .

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References

  1. 1 2 Kitching, Ian; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Zwick, Andreas; Hamilton, Chris; Laurent, Ryan St; Naumann, Stefan; Mejia, Liliana Ballesteros; Kawahara, Akito (2 December 2018). "A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Biodiversity Data Journal. 6. Supplementary material: checklist. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236 . hdl: 10141/622329 . ISSN   1314-2828 . Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. Becker, V.O. (2001). "The identity of some unrecognized Neotropical Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera) described by Francis Walker". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 18: 153-157.