Lygephila colorata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by János Babics and László Aladár Ronkay in 2009. It is found in north-western Pakistan.

Lygephila colorata
Female
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. colorata
Binomial name
Lygephila colorata
Babics & Ronkay, 2009

Adults differ from externally similar Lygephila amasina by the more elongated forewing with a pointed apex.[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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 4.0 license.