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Adisura bella

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Adisura bella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Adisura
Species:
A. bella
Binomial name
Adisura bella
Gaede, 1915

Adisura bella is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Max Gaede in 1915. It is found in Africa, including South Africa,[1] Somalia, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia[2]

This species has a wingspan of 25 millimetres (0.98 in) and resembles Adisura atkinsoni, from which it can be distinguished by the different distribution of the pink colour and the yellow-brownish edge of the hindwings, that is black at A. atkinsoni.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Kemal, Muhabbet & Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2007). Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera (PDF). Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera. Vol. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Adisura bella Gaede, 1915". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  3. ^ Gaede, M. (1915). "Neue afrikanische Lepidoptera des Berlinger Zoologischen Museums". Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift. Guben. 9 (14): 71–74, 79–80. (in German)