Galapagos Species Database
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Paectes nana
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Noctuoidea
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Paectes
Species
nana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Paectes arcigera. Paectes indefatigabilis Schaus, 1923: 38. syn. rev. (previously synonymized by Poole 1993 under P. arcigera)
Origin: Introduced - established
Distribution: Baltra, Floreana, Española, Gardner (cerca de Española), Genovesa, Isabela, Pinta, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Fé, Santa Cruz (Hayes, 1975; Linsley, 1977), Fernandina, Marchena, Wolf (Peck et al., 1998; Roque, 2006), García-Ruilova et al. (2026)
- García-Ruilova, A. B. Donoso, D. A., Basset, Y., Carrión-Olmedo, J. C., Garcés-Carrera, S., Jarrín-V, P., Muñoz-Tobar, S. I., Padhye, S., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Quiñónez-Sánchez, D., Sánchez, P., Smith, M. A., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Hebert, P. D. N., & Inclán, D. J. (2026) Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion. Sci Data 13, 1026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07465-z
- Pogue, M. G. (2013) A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée)(Lepidoptera, Euteliidae). ZooKeys, (264), 125.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Paectes nana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25698. Accessed 6 November 2026.