Catephia squamosa

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Scaly alchemyst
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Catephia squamosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Catephia
Species:
C. squamosa
Binomial name
Catephia squamosa
(Wallengren, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Anophia discistrigaWalker, 1858
  • Plusia inconclusaWalker, 1858
  • Anophia trispilosaSaalmüller, 1880

Catephia squamosa, the scaly alchemyst, [1] is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. The species is found in central, eastern and southern Africa, including some islands of the Indian Ocean. [2]

It has a wingspan of approx. 32 mm.

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