Upothenia
| Upothenia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Herminiinae |
| Genus: | Schaus, 1913 |
| Species: | U. acutipennis
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| Binomial name | |
| Upothenia acutipennis (Schaus, 1912)
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Upothenia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Upothenia acutipennis, is known from Costa Rica. Both the genus and the species were first described by William Schaus, the genus in 1913 and the species one year earlier.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Savela, Markku (February 19, 2012). "Upothenia Schaus, 1913". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Upothenia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Upothenia Schaus, 1913". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved February 1, 2020.