| Paracles uruguayensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Paracles |
| Species: | P. uruguayensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Paracles uruguayensis (Berg, 1886) | |
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Paracles uruguayensis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Carlos Berg in 1886. It is found in Uruguay.
Adults have a pale grey-yellow pattern.
Taxonomy
The species was synonymised with Paracles vulpina by George Hampson in 1901. Research in 2014 concluded it is a valid species.[1]
References
- ↑ Beccacece, Hernán M.; Vincent, Benoit & Navarro, Fernando R. (2014). "The type-material of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) described by Burmeister and Berg in the collection of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires, Argentina)". ZooKeys (421): 65–89. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6666. PMC 4109471. PMID 25061380.
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