Oedebasis ovipennis
Appearance
Oedebasis ovipennis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Oedebasis |
Species: | O. ovipennis
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Binomial name | |
Oedebasis ovipennis Hampson, 1902
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Oedebasis ovipennis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is known from Mozambique, Seychelles and Réunion.[1]
Male: Head, thorax and abdomen are reddish brown mixed with black, forewings pale red brown irrorated (speckled) with black. Hindwings pale fuscous brown.
Female: Vertex of thorax white, abdomen whitish.[2]
Their wingspan is 30 mm.
References
[edit]- ^ afromoths.net
- ^ Hampson, G. F. 1902. "The moths of South Africa (Part II)". - Annals of the South African Museum 2: page 352