Bucaea simplex
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Bucaea |
Species: | B. simplex
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Binomial name | |
Bucaea simplex (Walker, [1865] 1864)
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Bucaea simplex is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1864 or 1865. It is found in southern India (Khandalla, northern Kanara).[1]
The wings are yellow, but the forewings are darker and brighter than the hindwings.[2]
References
- ^ Bucaea at funet.fi
- ^ Dubatolov, V.V., 2007: The systematic position of the genera Bucaea Walker, 1866 and Tamilarctia Dubatolov & Kishida, 2005. Atalanta 38 (1/2): 213-216, colour pl. 10 (p. 316).