Tithraustes lambertae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Notodontidae |
Genus: | Tithraustes |
Species: | T. lambertae |
Binomial name | |
Tithraustes lambertae Miller, 2008 | |
Tithraustes lambertae is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It occurs in wet forests on the Caribbean slope in Costa Rica.
The length of the forewings is 16–17.5 mm for males and 16.5–18 mm for females.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on six species of palm: Asterogyne martiana , Calyptrogyne trichostachys , Geonoma congesta , Geonoma cuneata , Prestoea decurrens and Welfia regia .
Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.
Gloria Amparo Galeano Garcés was a Colombian botanist and agronomist specializing in the palm family. Galeano was a faculty member at the National University of Colombia, and was the director of the Institute of Natural Sciences from 2003 to 2006. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1997.
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