Dextella flavus

Dextella flavus is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found in western Malaysia (it was described from western Pahang).

Dextella flavus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dextella
Species:
D. flavus
Binomial name
Dextella flavus
Fibiger, 2011

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are short and relatively narrow and the ground colour is beige. There are blackish-brown patches basally on the costa and also in the upper medial and terminal areas. The crosslines are weakly marked and light brown. The terminal line is indicated by black-brown interveinal dots. The hindwing ground colour is grey with a well-marked discal spot.

References

  • Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.


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