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Genus of moths

Barlowia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Lymantriini
Genus: Barlowia
Talbot, 1929

Barlowia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by George Talbot in 1929.

The genus was named after Harold Barlow, a colonial civil servant in Nyasaland (now Malawi), who was a keen amateur lepidopterist. Barlow discovered male and female specimens of the Barlowia zelotes species in 1925, near Zomba, Nyasaland. He sent them to the British Museum, where they were classified by Talbot. Those specimens are still held by the Natural History Museum in London: see the link below for a photograph of them taken in 2007 (©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Barlowia_zelotes_Talbot,_1929_Types_BMNH.jpg

Species

References

  1. Savela, Markku (May 30, 2011). "Barlowia Talbot, 1929". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Barlowia​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Barlowia Talbot, 1929". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
Taxon identifiers
Barlowia


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