Lygephila lupina

Lygephila lupina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1890.[1] It is found in the Russian Far East, China and Korea.

Lygephila lupina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. lupina
Binomial name
Lygephila lupina
(Graeser, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Toxocampa lupina Graeser, 1890
  • Eccrita mirabilis Bryk, 1948
  • Lygephila mirabilis

The wingspan is 44–49 mm. The forewings are brownish grey with sparse dark brown irroration (speckles). The hindwings are brownish.[2]

References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lygephila Billberg 1820". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.
  2. Pekarsky, Oleg (2014). "Taxonomic studies of the Lygephila lubrica (Freyer, 1842) species complex with notes on other species in the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys. 452: 107–129.


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