Biology:Speiredonia obscura

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Short description: Species of moth

Speiredonia obscura
Speiredonia obscura male.jpg
male, from Sri Lanka
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Speiredonia
Species:
S. obscura
Binomial name
Speiredonia obscura
(Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Noctua obscura Cramer, 1780
  • Phalaena Noctua zamis Stoll, 1790
  • Sericia diops Walker, 1858
  • Speiredonia retrahens Walker, 1858
  • Ommatophora albifascia Walker, 1865
  • Spiredonia conspicua R. Felder, 1874
  • Sericia sumbana Swinhoe, 1918
  • Sericia layardi Hampson, 1926
  • Spirama obscura
  • Speiredonia zamis (Stoll, 1790)

Speiredonia obscura is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780.

Distribution

It is found in India , Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Taiwan, the Andamans, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines , Palawan, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia , the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Marianas, western Carolines.[1]

Illustration from Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's De uitlandsche kapellen
Illustration from the same work

References

  1. ↑ Zilli, Alberto; Holloway, Jeremy D.; Hogenes, Willem (2005). "An Overview of the Genus Speiredonia with Description of Seven New Species (Insecta, Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)". Aldrovandia 1: 17–36. http://www.museodizoologia.it/ricerca/aldrovandia/aldrovandia-volume-1-2005-1/an-overview-of-the-genus-speiredonia-with-description-of-seven-new-species-insecta-lepidoptera-noctuidae. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7575788 entry




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