Resapamea mammuthus

Resapamea mammuthus
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Resapamea
Species: R. mammuthus
Binomial name
Resapamea mammuthus
Crabo, 2013

Resapamea mammuthus is a moth in the Noctuidae family. It only known only from the type locality at Old Crow, Yukon Territory.[1]

The length of the forewings is 21.5 mm for males. The forewings are a mixture of tan, orange-tan, gray-tan, light-gray, brown-gray, and gray scales, appearing medium-dark orange tan, grayer near anterior and posterior margins and darker gray-brown in the terminal area. The hindwings are light gray tan with gray suffusion, very faint postmedial line, marginal band, terminal line, veins, and chevron-shaped discal spot.

Etymology

The name is derived from the genus of the wooly mammoth, Mammuthus, because its Beringian distribution and relatively large size for the genus.

References

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  1. Crabo, L.G. ; Davis, M. ; Hammond, P. ; Mustelin, T ; Shepard, J., 2013: Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae). Zookeys 264: 85-123. Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4304


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