Lygephila subpicata
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. subpicata
Binomial name
Lygephila subpicata
Wiltshire, 1971
Synonyms
  • Lygephila lusoria subpicata Wiltshire, 1971

Lygephila subpicata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Wiltshire in 1971.[1] It is found in northern and western Iran.

Adults differ from the sister species Lygephila pallida in the length and shape of the ampulla, and in vesica and aedeagus structure.[2]

References

  1. โ†‘ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila lusoria (Linnaeus 1758)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016.
  2. โ†‘ 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: 49โ€“81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.351.5999. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.


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