Nygmia semifumosa
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Nygmia |
Species: | N. semifumosa
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Binomial name | |
Nygmia semifumosa (Holloway, 1976)
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Nygmia semifumosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is endemic to Borneo. Males have a characteristically sparse and irregular scattering of black scales on the yellow forewing. Females have a similar, but even more sparse scattering, and diagnostic white patches; the hindwings are dark grey to about two thirds.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nygmia semifumosa". www.mothsofborneo.com.