Serrodes mediopallens | |
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Female, dorsal view | |
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Female, ventral view | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Serrodes |
Species: | S. mediopallens |
Binomial name | |
Serrodes mediopallens L. B. Prout, 1924 | |
Serrodes mediopallens is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1924. [1] [2] It is found on the Society Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, French Polynesia and in Australia. [3]
Adults pierce fruits to suck the juice and are considered a pest of Citrus in French Polynesia.
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Ophyx is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.
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Organopoda is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by George Hampson in 1893.
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Somatina is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.
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Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist.
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Serrodes partita, the catapult moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in western, eastern, central, and southern Africa, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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