Halysidota tessellaris ( Smith, 1797 )

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 : 316

Halysidota tessellaris ( Smith, 1797)

Phalaena tessellaris Smith, 1797: 149 .

Halesidota antiphola Walsh, 1864: 288 . — Type locality: USA, Illinois, Rock I[sland]. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).

Halisidota oslari Rothschild, 1909b: 283 . — Type locality: [ USA], Colorado, Denver. — Type specimen: Lectotype male designated by Watson (1980: 12) (BMNH).

TYPE LOCALITY. — [ USA], [ Georgia].

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

REMARKS

Reported from Mexico by Beutelspacher (1973: 51) and Ferguson et al. (2000).

Strand has described two infrasubspecific names associated with this taxon:

Halisidota antiphola ab. antipholella Strand, 1919: 84. — Type locality: [ USA]. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes ( BMNH; one female syntype labeled TYPE) .

Halisidota antiphola ab. tesselaroides Strand, 1919: 85. — Type locality: [ USA], [New-York], [New- York]. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes ( BMNH; one male syntype labeledTYPE) .