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<mods:titleid="E58451ACBAA4C22217A6632935BBB769">A new Andean genus, Lafontaineana, with descriptions of four new species and two new Neotropical species of Panthea (Noctuidae, Pantheinae)</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="DE08493086B9D2490492965437E33CA3">Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL, USA & Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL, USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="86E51B6BA1F25E7911114E1F1796660F">Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, K. W. Neatby Bldg., 960 Carling Ave., K 1 A 0 C 6, Ottawa, ON, Canada</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="9B6D67668DF70C35A3B085CD2C1F875B">Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, FL, USA</mods:affiliation>
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is relatively easy to distinguish from other species because of its pale sulfur yellow color, with brown and black patterns on the lightly squared forewing. Forewing with a large squared orbicular spot and semi-rhomboid-shaped reniform spot, which are totally different from other species. Hindwing with black lines at the end of each vein, a white fringe, and a long discal spot. Forewing length male 18-20 mm, female 24-26 mm. Palp pale sulfur-yellow with black patches on the second segment; antenna black; male thorax is pale sulfur-yellow, paler than the forewings on the dorsal surface, with black polygons outlined with white scales, the ventral area is dark gray. Abdomen dark brown with the two wide stripes and very narrow line of tufts. Male genitalia valva considerably wide; apex rounded; an extension present on the costal margin; sacculus wide with the process same size as sacculus; aedeagus 4⅓
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The type specimen was labeled as coming from New Grenada, which was a territory that comprised the four countries Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. However, curators at the NHMUK in the early 20th century added a label that says Colombia (Fig.
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