Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Pseudypsia Dognin, 1900 . Annls Soc. ent. Belg. 44 : 437.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CALPINAE

Type-species:
Pseudypsia dilectata Dognin, 1900. Annls Soc. ent. Belg. 44: 437.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by monotypy .

Type specimens:
Holotype - male [ECUADOR]: Loja, (USNM, Washington D.C.)..

Notes:
Poole (1989) included PSEUDYPSIA in the subfamily OPHIDERINAE, treated as CALPINAE by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999).

Poole (1989) included only 1 species in the genus PSEUDYPSIA.

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