| Mormogystia equatorialis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cossidae |
| Genus: | Mormogystia |
| Species: | M. equatorialis |
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| Mormogystia equatorialis | |
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Mormogystia equatorialis is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Kenya.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is brown. The head, thorax and abdomen are white.
The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal Lepidoptera found worldwide, except the Southeast Asian subfamily Ratardinae, which is mostly active during the day.
Midila is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Mormogystia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Azygophleps is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Mormogystia brandstetteri is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is endemic to the Socotra Archipelago, part of Yemen in the Indian Ocean.
Mormogystia proleuca is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, including southern Saudi Arabia, southern Oman (Dhofar) and Yemen.
Mormogystia reibellii is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in North Africa and the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, including the northern part of Saudi Arabia, northern Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Mauritania, Niger and Chad.
Aethalopteryx squameus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Ghana, Angola and Tanzania.
Azygophleps equatorialis is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was found in the Republic of the Congo.
Acraea equatorialis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Bebearia equatorialis, the equatorial forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the north-western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
Dyspessa is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1820.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Mirocossus is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae, described by J.W. Schoorl in 1990.
Duomitus is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, Duomitus ceramicus, described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in Yunnan in China and from southern India and Malaysia to Sumatra, Ceram and New Guinea.
Skeletophyllon is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Tarsozeuzera is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Trismelasmos is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Panau is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Encephalartos equatorialis is a species of cycad that is found on two granite hills on the eastern shore of Thurston Bay, Lake Victoria, Uganda at elevations up to 1000 meters.
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