Euclea (moth)
Appearance
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Euclea delphinii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Limacodidae |
Genus: | Euclea Hübner, 1819 |
Euclea is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae (the slug caterpillar moths). The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. There are at least 40 described species in Euclea.[1][2][3][4]
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Species
These 40 species belong to the genus Euclea:
- Euclea aemilia Stoll, 1782 c g
- Euclea aethes Dognin, 1911 c g
- Euclea agchiatropha Dognin, 1914 c g
- Euclea baranda Schaus, 1900 c g
- Euclea bidiscalis Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea brillantina Rothschild, 1911 c g
- Euclea brunnea Holland, 1893 c g
- Euclea buscki Dyar, 1912 c g
- Euclea byrne Dyar, 1912 c g
- Euclea cassida Dyar, 1927 c g
- Euclea cipior Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea cippus Cramer, 1775 c g
- Euclea copac Schaus, 1892 c g
- Euclea cuspostriga Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea delphinii (Bdv., 1832) i c g b (spiny oak-slug moth)
- Euclea determinata Druce, 1887 c g
- Euclea dicolon Sepp, 1848 c g
- Euclea distrahens Dyar, 1912 c g
- Euclea diversa Druce, 1887 c g
- Euclea divisa Holland, 1893 c g
- Euclea dolliana Dyar, 1905 i c g
- Euclea dolosa Druce c g
- Euclea flava Barnes & McDunnough, 1910 i c g b
- Euclea fuscipars Dyar, 1918 c g
- Euclea immundaria Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea incisa Harv., 1876 i g b
- Euclea jelyce Dyar, 1926 c g
- Euclea lamora Dognin, 1911 c g
- Euclea nana Dyar, 1891 c g
- Euclea nanina Dyar, 1899 i c g b (nanina oak-slug moth)
- Euclea norba Druce, 1887 c g
- Euclea pallicolor Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea permodesta Dyar, 1906 c g
- Euclea peroloides Dognin, 1916 c g
- Euclea plugma Sepp, 1848 c g
- Euclea poasica Dyar, 1912 c g
- Euclea rufa Butler, 1878 c g
- Euclea signata Köhler, 1924 c g
- Euclea spadicis Grossbeck, 1906 c g
- Euclea trichathdota Dyar, 1910 c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = BugGuide[4]
References
- ^ a b "Euclea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ a b "Browse Euclea". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ a b "Euclea". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ a b "Euclea Genus Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
Further reading
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
Media related to Euclea (Limacodidae) at Wikimedia Commons