Hemihyalea

Hemihyalea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
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

^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Schmidt (2009)

References

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Hemihyalea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-DEC-25.
Schmidt, B. Christian (2009): Revision of the "Aemilia" ambigua (Strecker) species-group (Noctuidae, Arctiinae). ZooKeys 9: 63-78. doi:10.3897/zookeys.9.149 PDF fulltext

External links

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

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[1] Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Schmidt (2009)

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