Thelosia truncata

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Thelosia truncata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Apatelodidae
Genus: Thelosia
Species:
T. truncata
Binomial name
Thelosia truncata
(Schaus, 1894) [1]
Synonyms
  • Trabala truncataSchaus, 1894
  • Thelosia truncata f. rectilineaDognin, 1922

Thelosia truncata is a moth in the Apatelodidae family. [1] It was first described by William Schaus in 1894, as Trabala (?) truncata. [lower-alpha 1] It is found in Brazil (Parana). [2]

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References

  1. in Schaus, William (1894). "3.On new Species of Heterocera from Tropical America". In Flower, W.H. (ed.). Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1894. Zoological Society of London. p. 237.
  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 (6). Supplementary material: checklist. doi:10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. ISSN   1314-2828. PMC   5904559 . PMID   29674935 . Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  2. Smithsonian Institution