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

Genus:
Scopariopsis Strand, 1909 . Ent. Rdsch. 26 : 141.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : HADENINAE

Type-species:
Scopariopsis viridigrisea Strand, 1909. Ent. Rdsch. 26: 145.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by original designation .

Type specimens:
Holotype - female CAMEROON: Victoria, (MNHU, Berlin)..

Notes:
Poole (1989) included SCOPARIOPSIS in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE, subsequently restricted to the genus AMPHIPYRA by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999). Other genera formerly treated in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE are treated as HADENINAE by Kitching & Rawlins (loc. cit.).

Poole (1989) included 3 species in the genus SCOPARIOPSIS.

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