Lygephila amasina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1878.[1] It is found in Turkey, Lebanon and Israel.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Lygephila |
Species: | L. amasina
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Binomial name | |
Lygephila amasina (Staudinger, 1878)
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Adults can be distinguished from similar Lygephila lusoria lusoria by the more contrasting wing pattern and the somewhat longer inner corner of the reniform stigmata.[2]
References
edit- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila amasina (Staudinger 1878)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
- ^ Pekarsky, Oleg (2013)."Taxonomic and morphological survey of the Lygephila lusoria (Linnaeus, 1758) species-group with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys. 351: 49–81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.351.5999. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
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- "08927a Lygephila amasina (Staudinger, 1877)". Lepiforum e.V. Retrieved December 6, 2019. (in German)