Phaeochlaena gyon

Phaeochlaena gyon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Notodontidae
Genus:	Phaeochlaena
Species:	P. gyon
Binomial name
	Phaeochlaena gyon; (Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
	Zygaena gyon Fabricius, 1787; Phaeochlaena dorsistriga Strand, 1920; Phaeochlaena fucata Prout, 1918; Phaeochlaena obtecta Moschler, 1877; Phaeochlaena ochrophanes Prout, 1918; Actea remota Walker, 1856; Phaeochlaena tendinosa Hubner, 1818;

Phaeochlaena gyon is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is endemic to the Guyana Shield and points west, at least as far as the Upper Amazon basin of Colombia and Ecuador.

References

Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.

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