Brachyglene bracteola

Brachyglene bracteola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Notodontidae
Subfamily:	Dioptinae
Tribe:	Dioptini
Genus:	Brachyglene
Species:	B. bracteola
Binomial name
Brachyglene bracteola (Geyer, 1832)
Synonyms
Phaeochlaena bracteola Geyer, 1832 Brachyglene circumlita Prout, 1918 Brachyglene dilatata Hering, 1925 Brachyglene elongata Hering, 1925 Phaeochlaena privata Walker, 1864

Brachyglene bracteola is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Carl Geyer in 1832. It is found from Venezuela east to Ceará, Brazil, and south at least as far as Rio de Janeiro.

Females show extensive wing-pattern variation.

References

• Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.