Historical-confusion

Guides

• Copablepharon pictum

  Pictured grasshopper, Barber pole grasshopper

  Copablepharon pictum is a moth species in the family Noctuidae, described by Fauske and Lafontaine in 2004. The species was previously treated as a grasshopper under the name Dactylotum bicolor pictum, but taxonomic revision moved it to the moth genus Copablepharon. It is known from North America with limited observational records.

  NoctuidaeNorth-Americataxonomic-revisionhistorical-confusion2004-description