Lymire nitens
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Lymire |
Species: | L. nitens
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Binomial name | |
Lymire nitens (Rothschild, 1912)[1]
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Lymire nitens is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Rothschild in 1912. It is found in Venezuela.
The length of the forewings is about 20 mm. The forewings are black-brown with a broad cinnamon-buff oblique band beyond the cell. The hindwings are black, very strongly glossed with purple.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lymire nitens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ^ Novitates Zoologicae This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.