Brachyglene superbior

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Brachyglene superbior
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Brachyglene
Species:
B. superbior
Binomial name
Brachyglene superbior
(Strand, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Ephialtias superbiorStrand, 1912

"Brachyglene" superbior is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Embrik Strand in 1912. It is found in Ecuador.

Taxonomy

The species does not belong in Brachyglene and has even been identified as an Arctiidae species, but has not been placed in another genus yet.

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