Dysgonia arcifera

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Dysgonia arcifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dysgonia
Species:
D. arcifera
Binomial name
Dysgonia arcifera
(H. Druce, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Parallelia arciferaH. Druce, 1912

Dysgonia arcifera is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1912. [1] It is found in western Africa. [2]

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References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-916846-45-9
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Dysgonia arcifera (Druce, 1912)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 6, 2019.