Drasteria yerburyi

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Drasteria yerburyi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Drasteria
Species:
D. yerburyi
Binomial name
Drasteria yerburyi
(Butler, 1892) [1]
Synonyms
  • Melipotis yerburyiButler, 1892
  • Syneda albifasciataGaede, 1939
  • Leucanitis albofasciataJohn, 1917
  • Syneda picaBrandt, 1939
  • Grammodes schematicaMeyrick, 1902

Drasteria yerburyi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Somalia, [2] Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Iran.

The larvae feed on Taverniera spartea . [3] The species is named after the collector of the type specimen Colonel John William Yerbury.

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria yerburyi (Butler 1892)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. "Naturkundliches Informationssystem". Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Drasteria yerburyi (Butler, 1892)". Afromoths. Retrieved February 23, 2019.