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Cydosia
Sign in to saveThe noctuid (owlet) moth genus Cydosia is the only member of the tribe Cydosiini in the subfamily Acontiinae. The genus was erected by James Duncan with John O. Westwood in 1841. The few species occur from Argentina along the Andes to the Caribbean and Central America, reaching into the southern United States. The unusual format for the authority citation is explained at Butterflies and Moths of the World as "The difficulty can best be overcome by attributing Westwood with anonymous junior authorship."
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, FMNH, MISSA, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Honduras
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- Cydosia nobilitella? Curve-lined Cydosia Moth (6399141039).jpg
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The noctuid (owlet) moth genus Cydosia is the only member of the tribe Cydosiini in the subfamily Acontiinae. The genus was erected by James Duncan with John O. Westwood in 1841. The few species occur from Argentina along the Andes to the Caribbean and Central America, reaching into the southern United States. The unusual format for the authority citation is explained at Butterflies and Moths of the World as "The difficulty can best be overcome by attributing Westwood with anonymous junior authorship."
==Species== Cydosia aurivitta Grote & Robinson, 1868 Cydosia curvinella Guenée, 1879 (syn: Cydosia phaedra Druce, 1897) Cydosia garnotella Guenée, 1879 Cydosia hyva E. D. Jones, 1912 Cydosia mimica Walker, 1866 Cydosia nobilitella Cramer, [1779] Cydosia primaeva Draudt, 1927 Cydosia punctistriga Schaus, 1904 Cydosia rimata Draudt, 1927 Cydosia tessellatilla Strecker, 1899
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