Phaeochlaena gyon

Phaeochlaena gyon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Notodontidae
Genus:Phaeochlaena
Species: P. gyon
Binomial name
Phaeochlaena gyon
(Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
  • Zygaena gyon Fabricius, 1787
  • Phaeochlaena dorsistriga Strand, 1920
  • Phaeochlaena fucata Prout, 1918
  • Phaeochlaena obtecta Moschler, 1877
  • Phaeochlaena ochrophanes Prout, 1918
  • Actea remota Walker, 1856
  • Phaeochlaena tendinosa Hubner, 1818

Phaeochlaena gyon is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is endemic to the Guyana Shield and points west, at least as far as the Upper Amazon Basin of Colombia and Ecuador.

References

  • Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.



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