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Therinia lactucina
Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Butterflies & moths

Therinia lactucina

Names

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Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameTherinia lactucina Cramer, 1780

About this species

Therinia lactucina is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae and the genus Therinia. It was first discovered by Pieter Cramer in 1780.

Two female specimens exist in the Natural History Museum, London. They were reportedly collected by Spencer Moore, in Paraguay, however this is false, and they were collected during the Percy Sladen Mato Grosso Expedition (1891-1892), in Brazil.

A subspecies of the moth, T. lactucina lactandensis, was described by Brechlin and Meister in 2014.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilySaturniidae
GenusTherinia

In Suriname

3Records in Suriname
5iNaturalist observations
2007First record
2022Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini2
  • Para1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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