Amastus melas

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: Amastus
Species: Amastus melas

Name

Amastus melas (Dognin, 1902): 232 [1]

Type locality: Colombia, [Cauca], Popayán.

Type material: USNM. Holotype female no. 30 410.

Synonymy

• Opharus melas Dognin, 1902 (Original combination)
• Hyperthaema elysiusa Schaus, 1933; Vincent & Laguerre, 2014
  • type locality: Ecuador, [Cañar], Azoques [Azogues]
  • type specimen: Holotype female no. 34 365 (USNM)
• Hemihyalea melas; Rothschild, 1910
• Amastus melas; Vincent & Laguerre, 2014

References

Primary references

• Dognin, P. 1902. Hétérocères nouveaux de l’Amérique du Sud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 226–233. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Vincent, B. & Laguerre, M. 2014. Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zoosystema 36(2): 137–533. DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1 Full article (PDF). Reference page.