Nebulosa rawlinsi is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by James S. Miller in 2008. It is known from two cloud forest localities: Maldonado on the western slope of the Andes in northern Ecuador, near the Colombian border and La Otonga Reserve, also on the western side of the Ecuadorian Andes, located between the towns of San Francisco de Las Pampas and La Union del Toachi.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Notodontidae |
Genus: | Nebulosa |
Species: | N. rawlinsi
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Binomial name | |
Nebulosa rawlinsi Miller, 2008
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The length of the forewings is 11-12.5 mm for males.
Etymology
editThe species is named after John E. Rawlins, curator of Lepidoptera at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh.
References
edit- Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.