Galapagos Species Database
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Leucania latiuscula
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Noctuoidea
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Leucania
Species
latiuscula
Taxon category: Accepted
As M. latiuscula in Hayes (1975)
Origin: Native
- Adams, M. S (2001) A revision of the moth genus Leucania Ochsenheimer in the Antilles (Insecta Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 70(3), 179-220.
- Hayes, A.H. (1975) The larger moths of the Galápagos Islands (Geometroidea: Sphingoidea & Noctuoidea). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., 4th series, 40(7): 145-208.
- Mccabe, T. L., Adams, M. S. (2023) Five new species of the genus Leucania Ochsenheimer in Central America (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa, 5256(3), 250-266.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Leucania latiuscula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25190. Accessed 6 November 2026.