Balacra elegans

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Balacra elegans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Balacra
Species:
B. elegans
Binomial name
Balacra elegans
Synonyms
  • Pseudapiconoma bumbaStrand, 1918
  • Pseudapiconoma elegans var. currieriDyar, 1899
  • Balacra damalisHolland, 1893
  • Balacra kivensisDufrane, 1945

Balacra elegans is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1892 and is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Uganda and Zambia. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Balacra elegans Aurivillius, 1892". Afromoths. Retrieved November 13, 2017.