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Leucanopsis infucata

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Species of moth

Leucanopsis infucata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Leucanopsis
Species: L. infucata
Binomial name
Leucanopsis infucata
(Berg, 1882)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota infucata Berg, 1882

Leucanopsis infucata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882 and is found in Argentina.

Taxonomy

It was placed as a synonym of Leucanopsis leucanina by George Hampson in 1901. Research in 2014 concluded it is a valid species.

References

  1. Beccacece, Hernán M.; Vincent, Benoit & Navarro, Fernando R. (2014). "The type-material of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) described by Burmeister and Berg in the collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires, Argentina)". ZooKeys (421): 65–89. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6666. PMC 4109471. PMID 25061380.
Taxon identifiers
Leucanopsis infucata


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