''Pantelodes satellitia'' is a

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in the family

Apatelodidae Apatelodidae, the American silkworm moths, is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera. They are a family within the superfamily Bombycoidea, though they have in the past been considered a subfamily of Bombycidae. Distribution Species ar ...

. It is found in

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and

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.BOLD Systems
/ref> It was transferred from ''

Apatelodes ''Apatelodes'' is a genus of moths of the family Apatelodidae first described by Packard in 1864. Species * '' Apatelodes adrastia'' Druce, 1887 * ''Apatelodes albipunctata'' Druce, 1898 * '' Apatelodes amaryllis'' Dyar, 1907 * '' Apatelodes an ...

'' to the newly-established genus ''

Pantelodes ''Pantelodes'' is a genus of moths of the family Apatelodidae. It was first described by Daniel Herbin in 2017, containing at the time nine species: ''Pantelodes satellitia'' (transferred from ''Apatelodes'') and eight newly described species pre ...

'' by Daniel Herbin in 2017.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Apatelodidae Moths described in 1855 {{Bombycoidea-stub