Lygephila lupina

Lygephila lupina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. lupina
Binomial name
Lygephila lupina
(Graeser, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Toxocampa lupina Graeser, 1890
  • Eccrita mirabilis Bryk, 1948
  • Lygephila mirabilis

Lygephila lupina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1890.[1] It is found in the Russian Far East, China and Korea.

The wingspan is 44–49 mm. The forewings are brownish grey with sparse dark brown irroration (speckles). The hindwings are brownish.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila Billberg 1820". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Pekarsky, Oleg (2014). "Taxonomic studies of the Lygephila lubrica (Freyer, 1842) species complex with notes on other species in the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys (452): 107–129. Bibcode:2014ZooK..452..107P. doi:10.3897/zookeys.452.8152. PMC 4258635. PMID 25493056. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.


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