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  Sighting 1364361

Straight-lined Argyria
Argyria critica

Observation date: July 20, 2023
Submitted by: Don Marotte
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: None.
Status: Resident
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: August 12, 2023
Coordinator notes: <i>Vaxi critica </i>(Forbes, 1920), transferred to the genus <i>Argyria</i> in Munroe (1995), is returned to <i>Vaxi</i> following the implied treatment in Léger et al. (2019), Syst. Entomol., 44(4):770, which placed <i>Argyria</i> in the tribe Argyriini and <i>Vaxi</i> in the tribe Calamotrophini, stat. rev.