Harutaeographa shui

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Harutaeographa shui
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Male
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Female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Harutaeographa
Species:
H. shui
Binomial name
Harutaeographa shui

Harutaeographa shui is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in China (Sichuan), on the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau. [2] The habitat consists of mountain virgin mixed forests dominated by various broad-leaved trees, rhododendrons and bamboos.

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Type locality, China, Sichuan near Siping Harutaeographa shui type location.JPG
Type locality, China, Sichuan near Siping

The wingspan is 37–42 millimetres (1.5–1.7 in). The forewings are richly decorated with dark coppery-brown patterns distinctly marked with black scales. The outer margin and cilia are lighter golden yellow. The hindwings have an intensive dark suffusion, which is especially wide on the outer margin, the discal spot and the well-marked postmedial fascia.

Adults have been collected from the end of March to the beginning of April at altitudes ranging from 1,500–1,600 metres (4,900–5,200 ft).

Etymology

The specific name refers to the Shu (state), which is now Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province.

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References

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  2. Rimsaite, Jolanta; Benedek, Balázs; Saldaitis, Aidas (2012). "Taxonomic and faunistic studies on the genus Harutaeographa (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Orthosiini) with description of a new species". ZooKeys (242): 51–67. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.242.3889 . PMC   3561681 . PMID   23378797. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.