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Genus:
Scopifera Herrich-Schäffer, 1870
, in Cramer.
Corresp.-Bl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg
24 : 103, 108.
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Status:
Available Name
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Homonyms:
1
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Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : HERMINIINAE
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Type-species:
Scopifera
longipalpis
Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874.
Reise öst. Fregatte Novara
(9),
2(Abt.2): pl.120, fig.35.
[BHL ]
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Type-species designation:
by subsequent monotypy
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Type specimens:
Syntypes - male & female VENEZUELA & BRAZIL: Nov Friburg & Marabitanas, (BMNH, London).. |
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Notes:
Nye (1975) stated:-
Available, but without included species until Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. S. longipalpis is a junior subjective synonym of Bleptina menippusalis Walker, [1859] 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 16: 126.
Poole (1989) included SCOPIFERA in the subfamily HERMINIINAE.
Poole (1989) included 11 species in the genus SCOPIFERA.
Learn more about Noctuidae in Wikipedia
Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) for references to SCOPIFERA and included species.
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