Dysschema damon

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: Pericopina
Genus: Dysschema
Species: Dysschema damon

Name

Dysschema damon (Druce, 1910); 171 [1]

Type locality: Brazil, Quipapa.

Holotype: BMNH. male HT ♂.

Synonyms

• Pericopis damon Druce, 1910
• Dysschema damon; Watson & Goodger, 1986
• Pericopis grassator Hering, 1925a: 444 [2], pl. 64c, fig.[2]; Lamas, 2017
  • Type locality: [Peru, Amazonas], Puerto S[anta] Rosa [de Huayabamba]
  • Syntypes: ST ♂, ♀ ZMB
• Dysschema grassator; Watson & Goodger, 1986

Note: Synonymy with D. thyridina Butler proposed by Becker, 2013 was rejected by Laguerre et al., 2014 and by Lamas, 2017, who synonymized D. grassator with D. damon (note 129 in Lamas, 2017)

References

• Watson, A. & Goodger, D.T. 1986. Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 1: 1–71. Reference page. 
• Becker, V.O. 2013. Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Pericopina and Ctenuchina moths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini), with description of new taxa. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 46: 53–66. BHL DOI: 10.5962/p.332188 Reference page. 
• Laguerre, M., Monzón Sierra, J. & Moraes, S. de S. 2014. Description of two new species Pericopini from Guatemala and critical review of some recent nomenclature changes in the genus Dysschema Hübner (Lepidoptera: Erebiidae: Arctiinae: Pericopini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(4): 1–19. [3]. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Lamas, G. 2017. An annotated checklist of the Pericopina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini). Zootaxa 4319(2): 263–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.2. Reference page.