Audea hemihyala

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Audea hemihyala
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Female
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Audea
Species:
A. hemihyala
Binomial name
Audea hemihyala
Karsch, 1896
Synonyms
  • Audea endophaeaHampson, 1913

Audea hemihyala is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1896. It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Orientale, Kinshasa, East Kasai), Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda. [1]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Bridelia species. [2]

References

  1. Kühne, Lars, 2005: Esperiana Buchreihe zur EntomologieMemoir 2: 1-220
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Audea hemihyala Karsch, 1896". Afromoths. Retrieved August 9, 2019.