Paectes

Short description: Genus of moths

Paectes

Paectes arcigera
Scientific classification
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Animalia

Phylum:  |

Arthropoda

Class:  |

Insecta

Order:  |

Lepidoptera

Family:  |

Euteliidae

Subfamily:  |

Euteliinae

Genus:  |

Paectes

Hübner, 1818

Synonyms

* Tribonophora Hübner, 1808 (Suppr.)
* Ingura Guenée, 1852
* Adrana Walker, 1858
* Orthoclostera Butler, 1878
* Callingura Butler, 1894

Paectes is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.[1][2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Species
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with tufts on first segment and very long, with a large anal tubular tuft especially in male. Forewing with nearly straight costa, rectangular apex, obliquely curved outer margin and near base lobed inner margin. in most species, antennae of male bipectinated and tibia hairy. And in some, antennae of male pectinated for two-thirds of length and fore tibia with a tuft of long hair from femur-tibia joint.[4]

## Species

* Paectes abrostolella Walker, 1866
* Paectes abrostoloides Guenée, 1852
* Paectes acutangula Hampson, 1912
* Paectes arcigera Guenée, 1852
* Paectes asper Pogue, 2013
* Paectes costistrigata Bethune-Baker, 1906
* Paectes cyanodes Turner, 1902
* Paectes declinata Grote, 1879
* Paectes delineata Guenée, 1852
* Paectes fuscescens Walker, 1855
* Paectes longiformis Pogue, 2012
* Paectes lunodes (Guenée, 1852)
* Paectes medialba Pogue, 2013
* Paectes nana (Walker, 1865)
* Paectes nubifera Hampson, 1912
* Paectes obrotunda Guenée, 1852
* Paectes oculatrix Guenée, 1852
* Paectes pygmaea Hübner, 1818 (syn: Paectes flabella (Grote, 1879))
* Paectes silvaini Barbut & Lalanne-Cassou, 2005
* Paectes similis Pogue, 2013
* Paectes sinuosa Pogue, 2013
* Paectes tumida Pogue, 2013

## References

1. ↑ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=20998.0. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
2. ↑ Savela, Markku (May 31, 2020). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/euteliidae/euteliinae/paectes/. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
3. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Paectes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=273898.
4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up.

* Barbut, J.; Lalanne-Cassou, B. (2005). "Description de trois Euteliinae néotropicaux appartenant aux genres Eutelia et Paectes et nouvelles synonymies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 110 (1): 97–102.
* Pogue, M. (2013). "A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée) (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae)". ZooKeys (264): 126–163. doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.3274. PMID 23730180.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7124048 entry

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