Alucita seychellensis

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Alucita seychellensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species:
A. seychellensis
Binomial name
Alucita seychellensis
Synonyms
  • Orneodes seychellensisT. B. Fletcher, 1910

Alucita seychellensis is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910. It is known from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

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References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Alucita seychellensis (Fletcher T. B., 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved March 21, 2018.