| Asura peloa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Asura |
| Species: | A. peloa |
| Binomial name | |
| Asura peloa (C. Swinhoe, 1904) | |
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Asura peloa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Sumatra, [1] Peninsular Malaysia, Java and Borneo.
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The Kālakeyas or Kālakhañjas are a class of Asura in Buddhist and Hindu mythology. They were a powerful, ferocious and cruel clan of the Dānavas.
Asura is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
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