''Paectes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
s of the family
Euteliidae
Euteliidae is a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote
Augustus Radcliffe Grote (February 7, 1841 – September 12, 1903) was a British entomologist who described over 1,000 species o ...
erected by
Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Scientific career
Hübner was the author of '' ...
in 1818.
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.
Species
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Paectes abrostolella''
Walker, 1866
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Paectes abrostoloides''
Guenée, 1852
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Paectes acutangula''
Hampson, 1912
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Paectes arcigera
''Paectes arcigera'' is a moth in the family Euteliidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is restricted to the eastern Caribbean Islands, ranging from Puerto Rico to the Lesser Antilles (including the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British ...
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Guenée, 1852
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Paectes asper''
Pogue, 2013
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Paectes costistrigata''
Bethune-Baker, 1906
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Paectes cyanodes
''Paectes'' is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Description
Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with tufts on first segment and very long, with a large an ...
''
Turner, 1902
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Paectes declinata
''Paectes declinata'' is a species of moth in the family Euteliidae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number
A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering sys ...
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Grote, 1879
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Paectes delineata''
Guenée, 1852
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Paectes fuscescens''
Walker, 1855
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Paectes longiformis''
Pogue, 2012
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Paectes lunodes''
(Guenée, 1852)
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Paectes medialba''
Pogue, 2013
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Paectes nana''
(Walker, 1865)
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Paectes nubifera''
Hampson, 1912
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Paectes obrotunda''
Guenée, 1852
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Paectes oculatrix''
Guenée, 1852
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Paectes pygmaea''
Hübner, 1818 (syn: ''Paectes flabella''
(Grote, 1879))
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Paectes silvaini''
Barbut & Lalanne-Cassou, 2005
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Paectes similis
''Paectes similis'' is a moth in the family Euteliidae first described by Michael G. Pogue in 2013. It is found in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the ...
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Pogue, 2013
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Paectes sinuosa
''Paectes sinuosa'' is a moth in the family Euteliidae first described by Michael G. Pogue in 2013. It is found in the Brazilian states of Goiás and São Paulo, north-western Paraguay and the Argentine province of Tucumán.Pogue, M. G. (2013)"A ...
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Pogue, 2013
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Paectes tumida
''Paectes tumida'' is a moth in the family Euteliidae first described by Michael G. Pogue in 2013. It is found in Colombia (Villavicencio), Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=Fr ...
''
Pogue, 2013
References
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External links
Euteliinae
{{Euteliinae-stub