Phassus costaricensis

Phassus costaricensis is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is known from Costa Rica, from which its species epithet is derived.[1]

Phassus costaricensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Phassus
Species:
P. costaricensis
Binomial name
Phassus costaricensis
H. Druce, 1887

References

  1. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.


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