Eospilarctia yuennanica is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in China and Vietnam.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Eospilarctia |
Species: | E. yuennanica
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Binomial name | |
Eospilarctia yuennanica (Daniel, 1943)
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Synonyms | |
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The wingspan is 59–66 mm.
Subspecies
edit- Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica (China: Sichuan, Yunnan)
- Eospilarctia yuennanica fansipana Saldaitis et al., 2012 (Vietnam: Chapa, Mount Fan-si-pan)
Eospilarctia guangdonga was formerly treated as a subspecies of Eospilarctia yuennanica.
Gallery
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Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica male
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Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica male
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Eospilarctia yuennanica fansipana male
References
edit- ^ Saldaitis, Aidas; Ivinskis, Povilas; Witt, Thomas & Pekarsky, Oleg (2012). "Review of the Eospilarctia yuennanica group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from the Indo – Himalayan region, with description of two new species and one subspecies". ZooKeys (204): 53–70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.3056. PMC 3391722. PMID 22787420.