Oxythaphora
| Oxythaphora | |
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| Oxythaphora delta (on right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Subfamily: | Agaristinae |
| Genus: | Dyar, 1917 |
| Species: | O. delta
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxythaphora delta Dyar, 1917
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Oxythaphora is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, containing only a single species, Oxythaphora delta; it was historically misclassified on multiple occasions, but in 2010 was determined to belong to the subfamily Agaristinae.[1] Both the genus and species were first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1917.
References
- ^ Becker, Vitor O. (August 2010). "Misplaced Neotropical Agaristinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), with descriptions of new taxa". Zoologia (Curitiba). 27 (4). doi:10.1590/S1984-46702010000400009.