Preptothauma

Preptothauma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Subfamily: Eupterotinae
Genus:
Draudt, 1931
Species:
P. oxydiata
Binomial name
Preptothauma oxydiata
Draudt, 1931

Preptothauma is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. Its only species, Preptothauma oxydiata, is found in Colombia. Both the genus and species were described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1931.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Preptothauma​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Preptothauma Draudt, 1931". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 13, 2017.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.