Speiredonia obscura

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Speiredonia obscura
Speiredonia obscura male.jpg
male, from Sri Lanka
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Speiredonia
Species:
S. obscura
Binomial name
Speiredonia obscura
(Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Noctua obscuraCramer, 1780
  • Phalaena Noctua zamisStoll, 1790
  • Sericia diopsWalker, 1858
  • Speiredonia retrahensWalker, 1858
  • Ommatophora albifasciaWalker, 1865
  • Spiredonia conspicuaR. Felder, 1874
  • Sericia sumbanaSwinhoe, 1918
  • Sericia layardiHampson, 1926
  • Spirama obscura
  • Speiredonia zamis(Stoll, 1790)

Speiredonia obscura is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780.

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Distribution

It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Taiwan, the Andamans, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Palawan, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Marianas, western Carolines. [1]

Illustration from Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's De uitlandsche kapellen Speiredonia zamis CramerAndStoll-uitlandsche kapellen supplement- pl. 36.jpg
Illustration from Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's De uitlandsche kapellen
Illustration from the same work Spirama obscura CramerAndStoll-uitlandsche kapellen vol. 3- pl 274.jpg
Illustration from the same work

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References

  1. ↑ Zilli, Alberto; Holloway, Jeremy D. & Hogenes, Willem (2005). "An Overview of the Genus Speiredonia with Description of Seven New Species (Insecta, Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)". Aldrovandia. 1: 17–36. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22 – via Internet Archive.


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