Species Utetheisa pellex (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Phalaena pellex Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [530].
• Leptosoma artemis Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [199].
• Deilemera signata Butler, A.G. 1878. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera of the group Bombycites, in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878(2): 381-388 [386].
• Deilemera albipuncta Druce, H. 1888. List of Lepidoptera Heterocera, with descriptions of the new species, collected by Mr. C.M. Woodford at Aola, Guadalcanar Island, Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 570-580 [573].
• Deilemera amosa Swinhoe, C. 1903. On the genus Deilemera, Hübner. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 53-85, 2 pls [59].
• Nyctemera tangens Seitz, A. (ed.) 1914. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [272].
• Deilemera bougainvillensis Strand, E. 1916. 2. Teil. pp.26 in Niepelt, W. & Strand, E. Lepidoptera Niepeltiana. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Lepidoptera aus der Sammlung. Leipzig : Druck von Urban & Co. 2 vols. [1].
• Nyctemera zoilides Prout, L.B. 1920. New moths in the Joicey Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 5: 286-293 [287].
• Nyctemera frosti Prout, L.B. 1920. New moths in the Joicey Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 5: 286-293.
• Nyctemera pervecta Prout, L.B. 1920. New moths in the Joicey Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 5: 286-293 [286].

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

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