Phanoptis fatidica

Phanoptis fatidica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Notodontidae
Genus:Phanoptis
Species: P. fatidica
Binomial name
Phanoptis fatidica
(Dognin, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Phelloe fatidica Dognin, 1910

Phanoptis fatidica is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found from Venezuela west to Colombia, then south along the eastern slope of the Andes to central Peru.

Adults have uniformly iridescent blue-black fore- and hindwings with a single white transverse forewing band.

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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