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Bessula

Number: 3797.0
Author: Grote
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39681#page/190/mode/2up
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Bessula
Journal: Papilio
Year: 1881
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 176
Ref Id: 2202.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Heliothinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 1
Type Country: [U.S.A.]
Type Depository: (BMNH, London)
Type Locality: New Mexico
Types: Syntypes - male & female
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Grote
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39681#page/190/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Papilio
Type Sp Page: 176
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1881
Type Sp Ref Id: 2202.0
Type Sp Genus: Bessula
Type Sp: luxa
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=BESSULA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae']
Memo: Poole (1989) included MELICLEPTRIA Hübner, 1823; ANTHOECIA Boisduval, 1840; ALARIA Duncan & Westwood, 1841 (precoccupied); TRYPANA Guenée, 1841; ORIA Guenée, 1852 (preoccupied); RHODOPHORA Guenée, 1852; TAMILA Guenée, 1852; EULEUCYPTERA Grote, 1865; LYGRANTHOECIA Grote & Robinson, 1873; TRICOPIS Grote, 1874; ADONISEA Grote, 1875; HELIOPHANA Grote, 1875; OXYLOS Grote, 1875; PIPPONA Grote, 1875; PORRIMA Grote, 1877; RHODODIPSA Grote, 1877; BESSULA Grote, 1881; DASYSPOUDAEA Smith, 1883 (as DASYSPOUDOEA on page 892); TRILEUCA Grote, 1883; PSEUDOTAMILA Smith, 1893; CANIDIA; Grote, 1890; EUPANYCHIS Grote, 1890; TRICHOSELLUS Grote, 1890; THYREION Smith, 1891; INCITA Grote, 1895; PALADA Smith, 1900; and CHLOROCLEPTRIA Hampson, 1903 as junior synonyms of SCHINIA Hübner, 1818. MELICLEPTRIA Hübner, [1823] 1816 was treated as a valid genus, revalidated by Beck, 1996, Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 36 : 44.

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c