Lapaeumides zerynthia

Lapaeumides zerynthia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Castniidae
Genus:	Lapaeumides
Species:	L. zerynthia
Binomial name
	Lapaeumides zerynthia; (Gray, 1838)
Synonyms
	Castnia zerynthia Gray, 1838; Castnia langsdorfii Ménétriés, 1857 (preocc. Ménétriés, 1829); Castnia amazona Buchecker, [1880];

Lapaeumides zerynthia is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Brazil, in the Neotropical realm.^[2]^[3] This species is likely found in lowland tropical forests, but future research is needed to confirm this.^[4]

References

^ Lapaeumides at funet
^ Lamas, G. (1995). A critical review of JY Miller’s checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista peruana de Entomología, 37, 73-87.
^ de Moraes, S. S., & Duarte, M. (2014). Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(2), 362-399.
^ González, J. M., Boone, J. H., Brilmyer, G. M., & Le, D. (2010). The giant butterfly-moths of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with notes on the Herman Strecker collection (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 38(152), 385-409.

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[1] Lapaeumides at funet

[2] Lamas, G. (1995). A critical review of JY Miller’s checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista peruana de Entomología, 37, 73-87.

[3] Moraes, S. S., & Duarte, M. (2014). Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(2), 362-399.

[4] González, J. M., Boone, J. H., Brilmyer, G. M., & Le, D. (2010). The giant butterfly-moths of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with notes on the Herman Strecker collection (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 38(152), 385-409.

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