Sternitta suffuscalis
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Sternitta |
Species: | S. suffuscalis
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Binomial name | |
Sternitta suffuscalis (Swinhoe, 1886)
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Sternitta suffuscalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1886. It is found from central India to the south of Sri Lanka.
The wingspan is 9–11 mm.
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was originally described in the family Pyralidae.
References
[edit]- Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.