Hemihyalea

Hemihyalea cornea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Phaegopterina
Genus: Hemihyalea
Hampson, 1901
Species: H. cornea
Binomial name
Hemihyalea cornea
(Herrich-Schäffer, [1853])
Synonyms
  • Hemihyalae (lapsus)
  • Phaegoptera cornea Herrich-Schäffer, [1853]

Hemihyalea is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family.

Taxonomy

The type species, Hemihyalea cornea, has been proposed for inclusion in Amastus, and other species that were previously classified in Hemihyalea have consequently been moved to the re-established genus Pseudohemihyalea. It is unclear at present whether Hemihyalea is a valid genus at all, and if so, which species other than H. cornea it would contain.[1]

Distribution

Hemihyalea cornea is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.


Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Schmidt (2009)

References


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