Paramelisa lophura

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Paramelisa lophura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Paramelisa
Species:
P. lophura
Binomial name
Paramelisa lophura

Paramelisa lophura is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1905 and is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Uganda. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Paramelisa lophura Aurivillius, 1906". Afromoths. Retrieved November 12, 2017.