Phalacra perspicaria
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Genus: | Phalacra |
| Species: | P. perspicaria
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| Phalacra perspicaria (Fabricius, 1798)
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Phalacra perspicaria is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798.[1] It is found in India.[2]
The protologue (species description) of Phalaena perspicaria by Fabricius is in Entomologia systematica emandata et aucta. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae 1798; page 449,[3] where it says (in Latin):
P. pectinicornis alis angulatis obscure cinereis: puncto medio strigisque duabus punctorum nigrorum. Habitat Tranquebariae Dom. Lund. Paullo maior Ph. tristriariae, tota obscure cinerea. Alae omnes supra puncto medio strigisque duabus posticis a punctis minutis, atris. Subtus pallidiores puncto medio strigisque unica atris.
At the Global Lepidoptera Names Index, P. perspicaria is suspected to be a senior synonym of Phalacra vidhisaria Walker;[4] in that case the name perspicaria is older and has a preference.
The type location is the town of Tharangambadi on the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu, India.
References[edit]
- ^ Beccaloni, George; et al., eds. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Phalacra perspicaria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
- ^ Entomologia systematica emandata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus descriptionibus
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Phalacra perspicaria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
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