''Scea subcyanea'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, espe ...

. It is found in

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Taxonomic history

Louis Beethoven Prout Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist. Prout specialised in the insect order of Lepidoptera, especially the Geometridae, or geometer moths, on which he was a foremost authority. His notebooks and publ ...

initially described this taxon in 1918 as the subspecies ''Scea caesiopicta subcyanea''; ''S. caesiopicta'' is now considered a junior synonym of '' Scea gigantea''. The type locality was given as " Carabaya, S.E. Peru, Oconeque to Aqualani, 6,000–9,000 ft". James S. Miller elevated ''S. subcyanea'' to species level in 2009.

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* Notodontidae of South America Moths of South America Taxa named by Louis Beethoven Prout Moths described in 1918 {{Notodontidae-stub