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Ercheia multilinea

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Ercheia multilinea
Echanella multilinea female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Ercheia
Species:
E. multilinea
Binomial name
Ercheia multilinea
Synonyms
  • Ercheia abnormis Swinhoe, 1904

Ercheia multilinea is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi and Seram. The species is infrequent in forest from the lowlands to 1790m, but is perhaps more often encountered above 1000m.

The species is sexually dimorphic, both sexes being distinctive. Males have most of the forewing a rosy fawn, with the reniform and a subapical patch picked out paler; the dorsum is broadly slaty blue-grey with a white streak at the interior of this zone at two thirds. Females have the forewing longitudinally streaked with dark brown, fawn and cream, with the reniform ringed cream.

Echanella multilinea male
Echanella multilinea female from Borneo

References

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  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe 1902". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
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