Audea stenophaea

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Audea stenophaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Audea
Species:
A. stenophaea
Binomial name
Audea stenophaea
Hampson, 1913

Audea stenophaea is a moth of the family Erebidae. [1] [2] It is found in India, where it has been recorded from the Palni Hills [3] and Hyderabad. [4]

Description

The head is black and the abdomen is ochreous white with a lateral series of black spots. The forewing is blackish-brown mixed with some whitish. The hindwing is pure white with a black terminal band.

The underside of forewing is white with a fuscous brown postmedial band. The underside of hindwing has a blackish spot at the middle of costa. [1]

The wingspan is 46 millimeters. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. Seitz, Adalbert (1912). The Macrolepidoptera of the world : a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. London Natural History Museum Library. Stuttgart : Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes (Alfred Kernen).
  3. Kühne, Lars, 2005: Esperiana Buchreihe zur EntomologieMemoir 2: 1-220
  4. Singh, Mitul and Vijul (2025-06-14). "Audea stenophaea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2025-07-10.