Virbia costata ( Stretch, 1885 )

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 389

Virbia costata ( Stretch, 1885)

Crocota costata Stretch, 1885: 103 .

Crocota opelloides Graef, 1887: 42 . — Type locality: [ USA], Texas. — Type specimens: Described from 1 male and 1 female syntypes (?).

Crocota intermedia Graef, 1887: 42 . — Type locality: [ USA], Texas. — Type specimen: Holotype male (USNM).

Crocota parvula Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893b:140 . — Type locality: [ USA], Colorado. — Type specimen: Holotype male (USNM).

Holomelino cocciniceps Schaus, 1901b: 269. — Type locality: [ USA], Colorado, Manitou. —Type specimens: Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).

Eubaphe pallipennis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918: 85 . — Type locality: [ USA], Col[orado], Glennwood Sp[rin]gs. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).

TYPE LOCALITY. — [ USA], Texas.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).

REMARK

This taxon is common in the mountain ranges of Arizona and Texas along the Mexican border, and almost certainly present in Mexico (C. Schmidt pers. comm.).