Leucanopsis infucata
| Leucanopsis infucata | |
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| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea | 
| Family: | Erebidae | 
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae | 
| Genus: | Leucanopsis | 
| Species: | L. infucata | 
| Binomial name | |
| Leucanopsis infucata (Berg, 1882) | |
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Leucanopsis infucata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882 and is found in Argentina.[1]
Taxonomy
It was placed as a synonym of Leucanopsis leucanina by George Hampson in 1901. Research in 2014 concluded it is a valid species.
References
- ^ Beccacece, Hernán M.; Vincent, Benoit & Navarro, Fernando R. (2014). "The type-material of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) described by Burmeister and Berg in the collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires, Argentina)". ZooKeys (421): 65–89. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6666. PMC 4109471. PMID 25061380.