Vargalorta kimurai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Noctuidae
Subfamilia: Noctuinae
Tribus: Xylenini
Subtribus: Xylenina
Genus: Vargalorta
Species: Vargalorta kimurai

Name

Vargalorta kimurai (Shikata, 2015)

Type locality: Nishimei Mt., Chinufuku forest road, Yambaru, Okinawa Isl., Japan, alt. 250m.

Holotype: NSMT. male ♂. 15.I.2002. legit Hideki Kobayashi.

Synonymy

• Conistra kimurai Shikata, 2015 (original combination)
• Vargalorta kimurai (Shikata): Benedek et al., 2022: 452

Primary references

• Shukata, K. 2015: Two new winter noctuid moths of the genus Conistra Hübner (Lepidoputera, Noctuidae) from the Ryukyu Chain, Japan. Tinea 23(3): 150-156. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Benedek, B., Volynkin, A.V., Saldaitis, A. & Tóth, B. 2022: On the taxonomy of the Conistra generic complex with descriptions of three new genera and a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae). Zootaxa 5141(5): 442–458. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.5.2. . Reference page.