''Paracles argentina'' is a
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the subfamily
Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...
first described by
Carlos Berg
Carlos Berg (, ) or Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Berg (, ) (21 March 1843, Courland – 19 January 1902 Buenos Aires) was an Argentine naturalist and entomologist of Latvian and Baltic German origin.
Having worked a few years in trade, he moved to ...
in 1877. It is found in
Corrientes Province
Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; ), officially the Province of Corrientes (; ) is a Provinces of Argentina, province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia, Argentina, Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the north, cl ...
, Argentina.
Taxonomy
The species was treated as a synonym of ''
Paracles laboulbeni'' by
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist.
Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...
in 1901. Research in 2014 concluded it is a valid species.
References
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Moths of South America
Endemic moth species of Argentina
Moths described in 1877
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