Global InformationTrosia nigropunctigera information
| Trosia nigropunctigera | |
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| Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Megalopygidae |
| Genus: | Trosia |
| Species: | T. nigropunctigera
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| Binomial name | |
| Trosia nigropunctigera D. S. Fletcher, 1982
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Trosia nigropunctigera, commonly known as the rosy ermine moth, is a lepidopteran in the family Megalopygidae native to the Neotropics. These moths have a wingspan of 45-60mm, and are distributed across Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru.[1] The species was first described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1982.[2]
- ^ "BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser - Trosia nigropunctigera {species}". v3.boldsystems.org. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Trosia nigropunctigera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.