Apocrisias
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| taxon = Apocrisias thaumasta
| authority = Franclemont, 1966
| parent_authority = Franclemont, 1966
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Apocrisias is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its single species, Apocrisias thaumasta, is found in the United States in southern Arizona and in Mexico.{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8219 |title=930379.00 – 8219 – Apocrisias thaumasta – Franclemont, 1966 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=September 9, 2019}} Both the genus and species were first described by John G. Franclemont in 1966.{{cite web |editor-last=Savela |editor-first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/apocrisias/ |title=Apocrisias Franclemont, 1966 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=September 9, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2259.0 |title=Apocrisias Franclemont, 1966 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=October 14, 2020}}
The wingspan is 49–56 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from July to August.{{cite web |last=Heiman |first=Maury J. |date=April 26, 2013 |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/448041 |title=Species Apocrisias thaumasta - Hodges#8219 |website=BugGuide |accessdate=September 9, 2019}}
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Category:Monotypic moth genera
Category:Moths described in 1966
Category:Moths of North America
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