Scaptesyle violinitens

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Scaptesyle violinitens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Scaptesyle
Species:S. violinitens
Binomial name
Scaptesyle violinitens
(Rothschild, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Padenodes violinitensRothschild, 1912

Scaptesyle violinitens is a moth in the Arctiidae family. It is found in New Guinea. [1]

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

New Guinea Island in the Pacific Ocean

New Guinea is a large island separated by a shallow sea from the rest of the Australian continent. It is the world's second-largest, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Scaptesyle violinitens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 13, 2018.


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