Lygephila lubrosa

Lygephila lubrosa
Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa female
Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Lygephila
Species:	L. lubrosa
Binomial name
Lygephila lubrosa (Staudinger, 1901)[1]
Synonyms
Toxocampa lubrica var. lubrosa Staudinger, 1901

Lygephila lubrosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria

The wingspan is 42–46 mm for ssp. lubrosa and 34–43 mm for ssp. orbonaria. The forewings are almost unicolorous with a poorly developed wing pattern. The subbasal line is represented by groups of dark scales on the veins. The antemedial line is semicircular and the reniform stigma is small and indistinct. The orbicular stigma is small and dot-like and the postmedial and subterminal lines are distinct and the terminal line consists of a row of black dots on the veins. The hindwings are pale ochreous.^[2]

Subspecies

• Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa (Kazakhstan: valley of the river Ili)
• Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria Stshetkin YuL & Stshetkin YuYu, 1994 (south-western Tajikistan: Pianj river valley)

References

1. taxapad
2. Taxonomic studies of the Lygephila lubrica (Freyer, 1842) species complex with notes on other species in the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)