Opharus corticea

Opharus corticea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856.[1] It is found in Venezuela.[2][3]

Opharus corticea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Opharus
Species:
O. corticea
Binomial name
Opharus corticea
(Walker, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Halysidota corticea Walker, 1856
  • Phaegoptera corticea (Walker, 1856)
  • Opharus cortica (Walker, 1856)

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Francis Walker using female specimens from Mr Saunders collection, collected in Venezuela, and named Halysidota corticea.[4] In 1892 Kirby placed this species within the genus Phaegoptera.[5] In 1919 Embrik Strand placed this species within the genus Opharus.[6]

Description

Walker described the adult female of the species as follows:

Female. Greenish brown, much like H. basipennis in structure. Proboscis tawny. Palpi striped with black. Antennae pale brown. Abdomen dull luteous, with a row of black spots along each side. Tibiae and tarsi with brown bands. Fore wings pale testaceous, mostly thickly covered with brown flecks, which are frequently confluent, the intermediate parts forming slight undulating bands; veins with black bands. Hind wings pale cinereous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines.[4]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Opharus corticea​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Opharus corticea (Walker, 1856)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  3. Benoît Vincent; Michel Laguerre (June 2014). "Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 36 (2): 280. doi:10.5252/Z2014N2A1. ISSN 1280-9551. Wikidata Q28365353.
  4. Francis Walker (1856), List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, Part VII. - Lepidoptera Heterocera, London, p. 1707, Wikidata Q112147530{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. William Forsell Kirby (1892), A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera. (Moths) : Vol. 1. Sphinges and bombyces, p. 213, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.9152, Wikidata Q55723188
  6. Embrik Strand (1919), Arctiidae: Subfam. Arctiinae., p. 56, Wikidata Q112147663


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