Apantesis philipiana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1985. It is found in the far northwest of North America from Wrangel Island west to Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories and south to Denali National Park in Alaska. It was named in honor of Kenelm Philip, a lepidopterist who started and ran the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey from 1970 to 2014.[1]
| Apantesis philipiana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Apantesis |
| Species: | A. philipiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Apantesis philipiana (Ferguson, 1985)
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The length of the forewings is 17 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from mid-to-late July.[2]
This species was formerly a member of the genus Grammia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ Sikes, D. S. Moss, J., Daly, K., Williamson, J., Nowicki, R., Sikes, N. K. 2019. KWP Lepidoptera Collection. UAF eCampus Website. [1]
- ^ Schmidt, B.C. 2009: Taxonomic revision of the genus Grammia Rambur (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 156: 507-597. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00496.x
- ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.
- ^ Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.