Munona iridescens

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: Phaegopterina
Genus: Munona
Species: Munona iridescens

Name

Munona iridescens Schaus, 1894: 233 [1]

Type locality: Venezuela, [Aragua] Aroa.

Type material: USNM. male ♂. Arct. gen. slide no. AW361. (lectotype designated by Watson, 1971: 48)

Synonyms

• Halisidota iridescens; Hampson, 1901
• Munona iridescens; Watson & Goodger, 1986

References

Primary references

• Schaus, W. 1894. On new species of Heterocera from Tropical America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 225-243. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hampson, G.F. 1901. New species of Syntomidae and Arctiadae. Annals and Magazine of natural History (7) 8(45): 165–186. Reference page. 
• Watson, A. 1971. An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 1. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 50: 1-361. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.50.1 Reference page. 
• Watson, A. & Goodger, D.T. 1986. Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 1: 1–71. Reference page. 
• Espinoza, B.A., Janzen, D.H. & Hallwachs, W. 2017. 17 new species hiding in 10 long-named gaudy tropical moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27(suppl. 1): 1-29. full article (PDF). Reference page.