Asuridia miltochristoides

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Asuridia miltochristoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Asuridia
Species:
A. miltochristoides
Binomial name
Asuridia miltochristoides
Rothschild, 1913

Asuridia miltochristoides is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the Khasia Hills.

The length of the forewings is 13–15 mm. The forewings are pale carmine-rose, with a basal black spot on the subcostal vein. There is an antemedian zigzag line, an oblique median broad line, a stigma, and a twice sharply angled postmedian line with black lines running from it to the termen along the black edged with yellow. The hindwings are rose. [1]

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References

  1. Novitates Zoologicae PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .