Estigmene acrea

Estigmene acrea

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: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Estigmene
Species: Estigmene acrea

Name

Estigmene acrea (Drury, 1773); Illust. nat. Hist. exot. Insects 2: index to vol. 1; 1770, ibidem 1: 7, pl. 3, fig. 2.

Type locality: “New York … Maryland and Virginia … Nouvelle York … Maryland & la Virginie”.

Synonyms

• Phalaena Bombyx acrea Drury, 1773
• acraea, missp.
• Phalaena Bombyx caprotina Drury, 1773); Illust. nat. Hist. exot. Insects 2: index to vol. 1; 1770, ibidem 1: 7, pl. 3, fig. 3. Type locality: “New York … Maryland and Virginia … Nouvelle York … Maryland & la Virginie”.
• acria (Fabricius, 1793), missp.
• Arctia pseuderminea Harris, 1823; Rep. Ins. Inj. Veget.: 251
• Leucarctia californica Packard, 1864; Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 3: 125. Type locality: “San Francisco, Cal.[ifornia]”
• Spilosoma mexicana Walker, 1864; List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 31: 291–292. Type locality: “Oajaca, Mexico”.
• Leucarctia packardii Schaupp, 1882; Check-List Brooklyn Entom. Soc.: 8 .
• Leucarctia rickseckeri Behr, 1893; Zoë 4: 247 .
• Leucarctia acræa klagesii Ehrmann, 1894; Canad. Ent. 26 (10): 292–293. Type locality: “[no locality given] several specimens in various collections”.
• echo Rothschild, 1910, part, the female

References

• Drury, D., 1773: Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author’s own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect; interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. London. – (1770) Vol. 1: i-xxvii, 1-130 p., 1-50 pl., Vol. 2: 92 p., 50 pl.
• Ehrmann, G.A., 1894: A few remarkable variations in Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist 26 (10): 292–293.
• Packard, A.S., 1864: Synopsis of the Bombycidæ of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 97–130.
• Rothschild, W., 1910: Catalogue of the Arctianae in the Tring museum, with notes and descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 17 (1): 1–85, (2): 113–188, pl. XI-XIV, 18: pl. III-VI, London and Aylesbury.
• Walker, F., 1864 [1865]: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31, suppl.: 321 p., Edward Newman: London.