Lophocampa brunnea

Lophocampa brunnea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Lophocampa
Species:	L. brunnea
Binomial name
	Lophocampa brunnea; Vincent, 2011
Synonyms
	Lophocampa montana (Gaede, 1928); Lophocampa caryae form montana Gaede, 1928;

Lophocampa brunnea is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Benoit Vincent in 2011. It is known from Guatemala.

Taxonomy

Lophocampa caryae form montana was described from Guatemala. In the catalogue of Allan Watson and David T. Goodger, published in 1986, this form was associated with Lophocampa propinqua. However, the habitus of montana is totally different from Lophocampa caryae, Lophocampa propinqua and in fact all Lophocampa species. Thus montana was raised to species rank. However, Lophocampa montana (Gaede, 1928) then becomes a junior secondary homonym of Lophocampa montana (Schaus, 1911). It is now known by the replacement name Lophocampa brunnea.^[1]

References

^ Vincent, Benoit (2011-01-12). "Description of two new Lophocampa Harris from the Dominican Republic (Arctiidae, Arctiinae)". ZooKeys (75): 69–78. Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...69V. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.811. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3088043. PMID 21594140. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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[1] Vincent, Benoit (2011-01-12). "Description of two new Lophocampa Harris from the Dominican Republic (Arctiidae, Arctiinae)". ZooKeys (75): 69–78. Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...69V. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.811. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3088043. PMID 21594140. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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