| Agape arctioides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Agape |
| Species: | A. arctioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Agape arctioides (Butler, 1887) | |
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Agape arctioides is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1887. The species is found on Seram, the Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal and Santa Isabel Island) and in Thailand. [1]
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