Psychophasma

Psychophasma erosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Phaegopterina
Genus: Psychophasma
Butler, 1878
Species: P. erosa
Binomial name
Psychophasma erosa
(Herrich-Schäffer, [1858])
Synonyms
  • Halysidota erosa Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]
  • Halesidota albidator Walker, [1865]
  • Halesidota vitripennis Walker, 1869

Psychophasma is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family. The genus contains only one species, Psychophasma erosa, which is found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru.[1][2]

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