Nyctaegeria

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Nyctaegeria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Nyctaegeria
Le Cerf, 1914
Species:
N. nobilis
Binomial name
Nyctaegeria nobilis
(H. Druce, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Aegeria nobilisH. Druce, 1910
  • Euhagena nobilis
  • Nyctaegeria rohaniLe Cerf 1914

Nyctaegeria is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sesiidae erected by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1914. [1] Its only species, Nyctaegeria nobilis, was first described by Herbert Druce in 1910. [2] It exists in Angola and Tanzania.

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References

  1. ↑ Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Nyctaegeria nobilis (Druce, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved January 4, 2020.


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