Dysschema molesta

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 molesta

Name

Dysschema molesta (Hering, 1925): 443 [1]

Type locality: Colombia, [Cauca], Popayan.

Holotype

ZMB. Holotype male ♂ by monotypy.

Synonyms

Pericopis molesta Hering, 1925 (Original combination)
Dysschema molesta; Watson & Goodger, 1986

Note: synonymy by Becker, 2013 with D. eurocilia was rejected by Laguerre et al., 2014, then Lamas, 2017. Moraes et al., 2022 confirmed the status of separate species for D. molesta.

References

Primary references

Hering, E.M. 1925c. Pericopinae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde Vol. 6: 425–455. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

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. [2]. 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.
Souza Moraes, S. de, Gueratto, P., Pereira Dos Santos, J., Santos, M.H., Freitas, A.V.L. & Duarte, M. 2022. Niche modelling and comparative morphology untangle taxonomy of the Dysschema eurocilia clade (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) and reveal a relictual Pleistocene Arc distribution. Systematics and biodiversity 20:1 [3]. Reference page.