Ectopatria virginea
| Ectopatria virginea | |
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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: | Ectopatria |
| Species: | E. virginea
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| Binomial name | |
| Ectopatria virginea Lower, 1905
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Ectopatria virginea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in South Australia.
Original Description
[edit]Male, 36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen snow-white, legs snow-white. Antennæ ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa nearly straight, termen oblique, hardly rounded; snow-white, without markings; cilia snow-white. Hindwings snow-white, slightly iridescent; cilia snow-white. A distinct species, well characterised by the wholly white colour; at first sight it is not unlike Caradrina gypsina, Low., but is without markings of any kind. Adelaide, South Australia. One specimen: in October.
— Original description by Lower[1]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ectopatria virginea.
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Descriptions of new Australian lepidoptera with synonymic notes.- no. Xxiii[permanent dead link]
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