Apiconoma opposita
| Apiconoma opposita | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Apiconoma |
| Species: | A. opposita
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| Binomial name | |
| Apiconoma opposita (Walker, 1854)
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| Synonyms | |
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Apiconoma opposita is a species of moth in the subfamily Arctiinae (tiger moths and wasp moths) of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by the English entomologist Francis Walker in 1854. It is native to northern South America, with recorded occurrences in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, French Guiana, and Suriname.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described as Euchromia opposita by Walker based on a male holotype specimen collected in Brazil, which is currently housed in the Natural History Museum, London. It was later transferred to the genus Apiconoma.
Throughout its taxonomic history, the species has been described under several synonyms. In 1874, Cajetan and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer described the synonym Euplesia ochrophila, and in 1901, George Francis Hampson described Delphyre aclytioides from a female specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The latter was formally synonymized with A. opposita by Michel Laguerre in 2016.[2]
See also
- List of moths of South America
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Apiconoma opposita (Walker, 1854)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 24, 2026.
- ^ Laguerre, Michel (2016). "Sex pairing of three highly dimorphic Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebiidae) females in French Guyana and description of three new species from Brazil". Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 4 (21): 1–26. doi:10.12976/jib/2016.4.21.