A review of the genus Euros Hy. Edwards (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Apameiini) with description of one new species
Author
Troubridge, J. T.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1308
63
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.173816
73555b50-e38d-41ef-b737-a09ec51c9de3
11755326
173816
Euros cervina
(Hy. Edwards)
(
Fig. 3
,
6
)
Herrichia cervina
Hy.
Edwards, 1890
.
Holotype
male, BMNH [photo examined].
Diagnosis. Forewing length
10 mm
. This species is easily recognized by the rusty orangebrown color of the head, prothoracic collar, thorax, and forewing. The hindwing is medium brown (not gray brown) with concolorous fringe. In the male genitalia, the digitus is at least twice as broad as those of
E. proprius
and
E. osticollis
, and the ampulla is fingerlike as in that of
E. osticollis
, but much broader.
Type
locality. Mt. Shasta district, California.
Distribution and habitat.
Euros cervina
has been collected in riparian areas in western Oregon and northern California.