Lygephila amasina

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Lygephila amasina
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Female
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Male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. amasina
Binomial name
Lygephila amasina
(Staudinger, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Toxocampa amasinaStaudinger 1878
  • Lygephila lusoria(Linnaeus 1758)

Lygephila amasina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1878. [1] It is found in Turkey, Lebanon and Israel.

Adults can be distinguished from similar Lygephila lusoria lusoria by the more contrasting wing pattern and the somewhat longer inner corner of the reniform stigmata. [2]

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila amasina (Staudinger 1878)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
  2. Pekarsky, Oleg (2013)."Taxonomic and morphological survey of the Lygephila lusoria (Linnaeus, 1758) species-group with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys. 351: 49–81. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.351.5999. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.