First record of Toulgoetarctia nigripuncta (Joicey &amp; Talbot, 1918)&nbsp;(Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil

José Augusto Teston

doi:10.15560/13.4.289

Check List 13(4): 289-291, doi: 10.15560/13.4.289

First record of Toulgoetarctia nigripuncta (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil

José Augusto Teston^‡

‡ Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil

Corresponding author: José Augusto Teston ( jateston@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Ricardo Russo Siewert

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Citation: Teston JA (2017) First record of Toulgoetarctia nigripuncta (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil. Check List 13(4): 289-291. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.289

Abstract

This note reports the first record of Toulgoetarctia nigripuncta (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) in Brazil. The specimens was found in the Amazônia National Park, Pará state, Eastern Amazon. The distribution of T. nigripuncta is enlarged 1000 km towards to the south in relation to the closest record for the species.

Keywords

Noctuoidea, Arctiini, Phaegopterina, tiger-moths, Neotropics