Adisura bella

Adisura bella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Adisura
Species: A. bella
Binomial name
Adisura bella
Gaede, 1915

Adisura bella is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Africa, including South Africa,[1] Somalia, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia[2]

This species has a wingspan of 25 millimetres (0.98 in) and resembles Adisura atkinsoni, from which it can be distinguished by the different distribution of the pink colour and the yellow-brownish edge of the hindwings, that is black at A.atkinsoni.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera
  2. ↑ afromoths.net
  3. ↑ (in German) Gaede, M. 1915d. Neue afrikanische Lepidoptera des Berlinger Zoologischen Museums. - Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben 9(14):71–74, 79–80.


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