Pagara

Pagara is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species, Pagara simplex, the mouse-colored lichen moth, is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee. Both the genus and species were described by Francis Walker in 1856.^[1]

Pagara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Pagara Walker, 1856
Species:	P. simplex
Binomial name
Pagara simplex Walker, 1856
Synonyms
Generic Comacla Walker, [1865] Vanessodes Grote & Robinson, 1870 Specific Comacla murina Walker, [1865] Vanessodes clarus Grote & Robinson, 1870 Ameria texana French, 1889

The wingspan is about 23 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round in the southern part of the range.^[2]

Former species

• Pagara fuscipes (Grote, 1883)