Biology:Pagara

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Short description: Genus of moths

Pagara
Pagara simplex.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Pagara
Walker, 1856
Species:
P. simplex
Binomial name
Pagara simplex
Walker, 1856
Synonyms

Generic

  • Comacla Walker, [1865]
  • Vanessodes Grote & Robinson, 1870

Specific

  • Comacla murina Walker, [1865]
  • Vanessodes clarus Grote & Robinson, 1870
  • Ameria texana French, 1889

Pagara is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species, Pagara simplex, the mouse-colored lichen moth, is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana , Iowa, Kansas , Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee . Both the genus and species were described by Francis Walker in 1856.[1]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round in the southern part of the range.[2]

Former species

  • Pagara fuscipes (Grote, 1883)

References

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