Biology:Sparagmia

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Short description: Genus of moths

Sparagmia
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Margaroniini
Genus: Sparagmia
Guenée, 1854
Species:
S. gonoptera
Binomial name
Sparagmia gonoptera
(Latreille, 1828)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena gonoptera Latreille, 1828
  • Guenée, 1854 Sparagmia gigantalis

Sparagmia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Achille Guenée in 1854.[1] Its only species, Sparagmia gonoptera, described by Pierre André Latreille in 1828, is found in Central and South America and in the Antilles.[2][3] Records include Argentina , Brazil , Panama, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Jamaica.

Subspecies

  • Sparagmia gonoptera gonoptera
  • Sparagmia gonoptera shoumatoffi Munroe, 1958 (Jamaica)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7573548 entry