Tethea

• Main Authors: Jiang, Nan, Yang, Chao, Xue, Dayong, Han, Hongxiang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Drepanidae; Tethea; Lappland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6111244; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F887CDFFA26047F4EEFF78FEA4DCA9

Tethea ( Tethea ) or (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Noctua or Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775: 87. Type-locality: Austria, Vienna district. Noctua ypsilon-graecum Goeze, 1781: 253. Type-locality: Europe. Phalaena (Noctua) gamma-graecum Retzius, 1783: 47. Type-locality: Europe. Noctua consobrina Borkhausen, 1790: 66, pl. 6: 4b. Type-locality: Europe. Noctua octogena Esper, 1791: 388, pl. 128: f5. Type-locality: Europe. Noctua gemina Beckwith, 1794: 4, pl. 1: 4–6. Type-locality: Europe. Palimpsestis rufa Houlbert, 1921: 148. Type-locality: Europe. Lectotype ♂ (BMNH). Palimpsestis or hela Rangnow, 1935: 205, pl. 3: 27a. Type-locality: Sweden, Lappland. Tethea or nigrescens Werny, 1966: 342, fig. 197. Type-locality: Germany, Saarbrücken. Holotype ♂ (CDS). Remarks. The nominate subspecies is distributed from most part of Europe to Turkey, and represented in the continental part of East Asia by T. or terrosa (Graeser, 1888). Another subspecies, akanensis (Matsumura, 1933), is distributed in Japan. Published as part of Jiang, Nan, Yang, Chao, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2015, An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species, pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 3941 (1) on page 12, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288205