Flax basis
| Flax basis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Flax |
| Species: | F. basis
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| Binomial name | |
| Flax basis Fibiger, 2011
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Flax basis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found in Laos (Vientiane), in Southeast Asia.
Description[edit]
The wingspan is 10-10.5 mm.
The ground colour of the forewings is brown, including the fringes. The base of the costa has a long, dark-brown patch. There is a dark-brown quadrangular patch in the upper medial area. The crosslines are indistinct and dark brown. The terminal line is indicated by dark-brown interveinal dots.
The hindwings are grey. The underside of the forewings is unicolorous brown and the underside of the hindwings is grey with a discal spot.
References[edit]
- Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.