Lygephila fereidun is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Wiltshire in 1961.[1][failed verification] It is found in the Elburz Mountains of northern Iran.

Lygephila fereidun
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. fereidun
Binomial name
Lygephila fereidun
Wiltshire, 1961

The colour of the adults is pale straw and the wing pattern is close to Lygephila lusoria glycyrrhizae. Based on the currently known characters, L. fereidun is possibly an aberrant specimen of Lygephila pallida.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila lusoria (Linnaeus 1758)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016.
  2. ^ 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.