Tecmessa (moth)

Tecmessa
Tecmessa gonema, Guyana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Heterocampinae
Genus: Tecmessa
Burmeister, 1878

Tecmessa is a Neotropical genus of moths of the family Notodontidae described by Hermann Burmeister in 1878, and historically confused with the Old World genus Cerura.[1]

Tecmessa recently contained more than 20 species. As a result of research published in 2023, 17 of the species were transferred to the new genus Americerura. In the same publication, the genus Tecmessa was moved from subfamily Cerurinae to Heterocampinae.[2]

  1. ^ Schintlmeister, A. (2013) World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 11: Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera). Brill, Leiden, 608 pp.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference StLaurent2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).