Apantesis nais

Taxonavigation

Apantesis nais

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: Arctiina
Genus: Apantesis
Species: Apantesis nais

Apantesis nais (Drury, 1773); Illust. nat. Hist. exot. Insects 2: index to vol. 1; 1770, ibidem 1: 15–16, t. 7, fig. 3 (Phalaena Noctua nais).

Type locality: “New York … Nouvelle York”.

Phalaena Bombyx cuneata Goeze, 1781; Entom. Beyträge (IV) 3: 65. Type locality: “neuyorkische…”.
Arctia decorata Saunders, 1863; Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 2 (1): 60. Type locality: “Near St. Catherines, C. W.”
Arctia ochreata Butler, 1881; Ent. Monthly Mag. 18: 136. Type locality: “United States”.
phaleratula Strand, 1919; ab.!!! Infrasubspecific name!!!

Brou Jr., Vernon A., 2008: Spotlight on rearing: Apantesis nais (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) in Louisiana. South. Lepid. News 30: 21–23.
Butler, A.G., 1881: Descriptions of some apparently new species of Arctiidæ from North America. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 18: 135–136.
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 2: 1–92, 50 pl., London.
Goeze, J. A. E., 1781: Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems 3 (3): XLVIII+178 S., Leipzig.
Saunders, W., 1863: Descriptions of two new species of Arctiidæ. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2 (1): 59–60.
Strand, E., 1919: Arctiidae: subfam. Arctiinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 22: 416 S., W.Yunk: Berlin.