Bilinea

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Bilinea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Magnina
Genus: Bilinea
Fibiger, 2008

Bilinea is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008.

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