Paectes

Paectes
	Paectes arcigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Euteliidae
Subfamily:	Euteliinae
Genus:	Paectes; Hübner, 1818
Synonyms
	Adrana Walker, 1858; Callingura Butler, 1894; Ingura Guenée, 1852; Orthoclostera Butler, 1878;

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

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

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
Savela, Markku (May 31, 2020). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Paectes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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. PMC 3668378. PMID 23730180.

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[1] Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved August 2, 2020.

[2] Savela, Markku (May 31, 2020). "Paectes Hübner, 1818". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 2, 2020.

[3] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Paectes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 2, 2020.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.