Tecmessa annulipes

Tecmessa annulipes

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae

Tecmessa is a Neotropical genus of moths of the family Notodontidae described by Hermann Burmeister in 1878, and historically confused with the Old World genus Cerura. Tecmessa recently contained more than 20 species. As a result of research published in 2023, 17 of the species were transferred to the new genus Americerura.

Distribution

Tecmessa annulipes — (c) Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 7Uruguay · 4Argentina · 1

Sources and credits

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Tecmessa annulipes

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