A new species of Elasmia Moeschler from New Mexico and Texas, and a new subspecies of Elasmia mandela (Druce) from Texas and Oklahoma (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae, Nystaleinae)
Author
Metzler, Eric H.
Author
Knudson, Edward C.
text
ZooKeys
2011
149
51
67
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.149.1519
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.149.1519
1313-2970-149-51
Elasmia insularis (Grote, 1866)
comb. n.
Discussion.
The adult and genitalia of
Elasmia insularis
were illustrated in
Torre and Alayo (1959)
. We examined male specimens, and their genitalia, of
Elasmia insularis
from Cuba.
Elasmia insularis
is not known to occur in Florida (
Heppner 2003
), and it is doubtful that it occurs in the U.S. Inclusion of
Elasmia insularis
in
Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010)
was based on erroneous reports from Texas (
Knudson and Bordelon 1999
).