Oedebasis ovipennis

Oedebasis ovipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Oedebasis
Species: O. ovipennis
Binomial name
Oedebasis ovipennis
Hampson, 1902

Oedebasis ovipennis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is known from Mozambique, Seychelles and La Réunion.[1]

Male: Head, thorax and abdomen are reddish brown mixed with black, forewings pale red-brown irrorated with black. Hidewings pale fuscous brown. Female: Vertex of thorax white, abdomen whitish.[2]

Their wingspan is 30mm.

References

  1. afromoths.net
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1902. The moths of South Africa (Part II). - Annals of the South African Museum 2: page 352


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