Sagenosoma elsa (Strecker, 1878)

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Nomenclature

Subtribe: Sphingina

Genus: Sagenosoma

Species:

Sagenosoma elsa (Strecker, 1878)

Usage:

valid

Reference:

Section II. Lepidoptera. Pp. 1847-1872, in: Ruffner, E.H., Appendix S.S., Annual report of Lieutenant E.H. Ruffner, Corps of Engineers, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878. Explorations and surveys in the Department of the Missouri 126

Type data:

Syntypes 1♂ 1♀ [United States:] Arizona [FMNH]. The ♀ syntype is in the FMNH; Strecker (1900, Lepid. Rhop. Het. Indig. Exot. (suppl. 3): 26) having obtained it from Neumoegen.

Taxonomic Notes:

Transferred to Dictyosoma by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 111, 112; then to Sagenosoma by Jordan, 1946, in Oiticica, Bolm Mus. nac. Rio de J. (N.S., Zool.) 66: 6.