Glaucacna

Genus of moths From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Glaucacna is a monotypic moth genus in the family Agonoxenidae which was described by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1931. Its only species, Glaucacna iridea, described in the same article, is found in Puerto Rico.[1]

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Glaucacna
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Subfamily: Agonoxeninae
Genus: Glaucacna
Forbes, 1931
Species:
G. iridea
Binomial name
Glaucacna iridea
Forbes, 1931
Synonyms
  • Glaucagna Gaede, 1937 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
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