Adisura bella is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Max Gaede in 1915. It is found in Africa, including South Africa,[1] Somalia, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Adisura |
| Species: | A. bella
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| Binomial name | |
| Adisura bella Gaede, 1915
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This species has a wingspan of 25 millimetres (0.98 in) and resembles Adisura atkinsoni, from which it can be distinguished by the different distribution of the pink colour and the yellow-brownish edge of the hindwings, that is black at A. atkinsoni.[3]
References
edit- ^ Kemal, Muhabbet & Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2007). Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera (PDF). Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera. Vol. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Adisura bella Gaede, 1915". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ Gaede, M. (1915). "Neue afrikanische Lepidoptera des Berlinger Zoologischen Museums". Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift. Guben. 9 (14): 71–74, 79–80. (in German)
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