Macrocneme chrysitis Guérin-Méneville, 1844 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Macrocneme chrysitis Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Macrocneme chrysitis Guérin-Méneville, 1844

The southern cyan tiger moth Macrocneme chrysitis is an Arctiinae moth described in 1844, found from Texas to southern Brazil.

Family
Genus
Macrocneme
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Macrocneme chrysitis Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Macrocneme chrysitis, commonly known as the southern cyan tiger moth, is a moth species that belongs to the subfamily Arctiinae. This species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844. Its known distribution includes Texas, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Photo: (c) Nick Block, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Nick Block · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Macrocneme

More from Erebidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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