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Purius Walker, 1855
Purius Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 3: 719, TS: Purius sordidus Walker
Spodarctia Dyar, 1925; Ins. Insc. Menstr. 13: 3, TS: Spodarctia superpulverea Dyar
= ; Watson & Goodger, 1986, Occ. papers on syst. entomology 1: 18
Purius ; Godman & Salvin, 1884, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 100; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 442
Purius (Phaegopterini) ; Watson & Goodger, 1986, Occ. papers on syst. entomology 1: 18

Purius pilumnia (Stoll, [1780])
Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Surinam, Cayenne, Amazons. See [About maps] Phalaena pilumnia Stoll, [1780]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): pl. 307, f. D
Purius sordidus Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 3: 719, TL: Venezuela
Purius sordidus ; Godman & Salvin, 1884, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 100
Purius pilumnia ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 442, f. 184; Watson & Goodger, 1986, Occ. papers on syst. entomology 1: 18

Purius superpulverea (Dyar, 1925)
Mexico. See [About maps] Spodarctia superpulverea Dyar, 1925; Ins. Insc. Menstr. 13: 3, TL: Mexico, Colima
Purius superpulverea, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Purius superpulverea ; Watson & Goodger, 1986, Occ. papers on syst. entomology 1: 18


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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BCA]
electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[BHL]
The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group


Some related literature:
Dyar, 1925
Some new American moths Ins. Insc. Menstr. 13: 1-19
Godman & Salvin, 1884
Biologia Centrali-Americana; or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Lepidoptera. Heterocera Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 1-490, 3: pl. 1-101
Hampson, 1901
Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : i-xix, 1-690, pl. 36-54
Stoll, [1780]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): 29-90, pl. 305-336 (1780), (29-31): 91-164, pl. 337-372 (1781), (32-32): 165-252, 1-29, pl. 373-400 (1782)
Walker, 1855
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 1-278 (1854), 2: 279-581 (1854), 3: 582-775 (1855), 4: 776-976 (1855), 5: 977-1258 (1855), 6: 1259-1508 (1855), 7: 1509-1808 (1856)
Watson & Goodger, 1986
Catalogue of the Neotropical Tigermoths Occ. papers on syst. entomology 1: 1-71


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