Biology:Mazuca strigicincta
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Short description: Species of moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Mazuca |
| Species: | M. strigicincta
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| Binomial name | |
| Mazuca strigicincta Walker, 1866
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Mazuca strigicincta, the Pikachu moth, is a moth in the family Noctuidae found from Nigeria and Ghana down to northern Namibia and Mozambique.[1]
Taxonomy
Name
This taxon was named by Francis Walker in 1866.[2][3][4]
Common name
The common name, Pikachu moth, comes from the fact that the moth shares colors with the popular Pokémon character Pikachu.
Appearances in media
M. strigicincta appears on a commemorative Ghanaian postage stamp in 2002 along with other stamps featuring other species of moths. The stamp features the Pikachu moth with a purple background, with "Ghana" written in the top right and the characters "C4500" in the bottom left in red Comic Sans.[5]
References
- ↑ "Search". https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/map?taxon_key=1767201.
- ↑ "Mazuca strigicincta Walker, 1866". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/a77eedc1e0fb286c6c84408f09d068c0.
- ↑ Savela, Markku (June 10, 2019). "Mazuca strigicincta Walker, 1866". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/hadeninae/mazuca/#strigicincta. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Mazuca strigicincta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=266934.
- ↑ "Stamp: Pikachu Moth (Mazuca strigicincta) (Ghana 2002)". https://touchstamps.com/Stamp/Details/926386/pikachu-moth-mazuca-strigicincta.
Wikidata ☰ Q13513543 entry
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