Lygephila lubrosa

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Lygephila lubrosa
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Female Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa
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Male Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. lubrosa
Binomial name
Lygephila lubrosa
(Staudinger, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Toxocampa lubrica var. lubrosaStaudinger, 1901

Lygephila lubrosa is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1901. It is found in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria male.jpg
Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria

The wingspan is 42–46 mm for L. l. lubrosa and 34–43 mm for L. l. orbonaria. The forewings are almost unicolorous with a poorly developed wing pattern. The subbasal line is represented by groups of dark scales on the veins. The antemedial line is semicircular and the reniform stigma is small and indistinct. The orbicular stigma is small and dot-like and the postmedial and subterminal lines are distinct and the terminal line consists of a row of black dots on the veins. The hindwings are pale ochreous. [1]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Pekarsky, Oleg (2014). "Taxonomic studies of the Lygephila lubrica (Freyer, 1842) species complex with notes on other species in the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys (452): 107–129. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.452.8152 . PMC   4258635 . PMID   25493056. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.