Schistomitra

Short description: Genus of moths

Schistomitra

S. joelmineti (1-5), S. funeralis (6-8)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Epicopeiidae
Genus:  | Schistomitra
Butler, 1881

Schistomitra is a moth genus in the family Epicopeiidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881. The genus was regarded as a monotypic taxon for a long time, however a second species was newly described in 2019.[1]

## Species

* Schistomitra funeralis Butler, 1881
* Schistomitra joelmineti Huang & Wang, 2019

## References

1. ↑ Si-Yao Huang; Yuan Zhang; Min Wang; Xiao-Ling Fan (2019). "First record of the genus Schistomitra Butler, 1881 (Lepidoptera, Epicopeiidae) from China, with the description of a new species". ZooKeys (878): 145–155. doi:10.3897/zookeys.878.35364. PMID 31632178. PMC 6791896. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/35364/.

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