Lacera noctilio
| Lacera noctilio | |
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|  Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea | 
| Family: | Erebidae | 
| Genus: | Lacera | 
| Species: | L. noctilio | 
| Binomial name | |
|  Lacera  noctilio (Fabricius, 1794)[1]  | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lacera noctilio is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Africa, where it is known from Malawi and La Réunion[2] and southern Asia, Australia and several Pacific islands (Samoa, New Caledonia, Tonga, the Marianas and Carolines[3]).
Larvae have mostly been recorded from Leguminosae (Caesalpinia), but also on Pisonia (Nyctaginaceae), Canthium (Rubiaceae) and Verbenaceae.
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