Scea subcyanea

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Scea subcyanea
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Female, collected at Machu Picchu in 2001.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Scea
Species:
S. subcyanea
Binomial name
Scea subcyanea
Prout, 1918 [1] [2]
Synonyms [1]
  • Scea caesiopicta subcyaneaProut, 1918

Scea subcyanea is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Peru.

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Taxonomic history

Louis Beethoven Prout initially described this taxon in 1918 as the subspecies Scea caesiopicta subcyanea; [2] S. caesiopicta is now considered a junior synonym of Scea gigantea . The type locality was given as "Carabaya, S.E. Peru, Oconeque to Aqualani, 6,000–9,000 ft". [2]

James S. Miller elevated S. subcyanea to species level in 2009. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Schintlmeister, Alexander (2013), Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera) , World Catalogue of Insects, vol. 11, Leiden: BRILL, p. 398, doi:10.1163/9789004259188, ISBN   978-90-04-25918-8
  2. 1 2 3 Prout, Louis B. (1918). "A provisional arrangement of the Dioptidae". Novitates Zoologicae. 25: 425.
  3. ↑ Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Notodontidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 851. hdl: 2246/5978 .


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