Eutrogia morosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Eutrogia |
Species: | E. morosa |
Binomial name | |
Eutrogia morosa (Moore, 1882) | |
Synonyms | |
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Eutrogia morosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. [1] It is found in Taiwan and Sikkim, India.
The wingspan is about 42 mm. Adults are dark chocolate brown with a purplish tinge. The forewing with traces of subbasal and antemedial lines. The hindwings have a pale speck at the end of the cell and a sinuous medial line, with some dark specks with yellow scales round them towards the inner margin. There is a submarginal series of white specks. [2]
Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
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Corcobara is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. Its only species, Corcobara angulipennis, described by the same author in the same year, is found in India, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Sri Lanka and the Solomons.
Dordura is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1882. Its only species, Dordura aliena, was first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea.
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Hydrillodes is a genus of litter moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1854. Its validity is somewhat disputed.
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Callidrepana patrana is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1866. It is found in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, mainland China, Japan and Taiwan.
Xylostola indistincta is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to New Guinea.
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Asura arcuata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in India, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan.
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Bocula pallens is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in northern India, and Sri Lanka.
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