Pericyma metaleuca

Pericyma metaleuca
Pericyma metaleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Catocalinae
Genus: Pericyma
Species: P. metaleuca
Binomial name
Pericyma metaleuca
Hampson, 1913

Pericyma metaleuca is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Africa and the Near East and is known from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia , Tanzania and Yemen.[1]

It has a wingspan of approx. 24mm.[2]

Subspecies

References

  1. afromoths.net
  2. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32577928#page/326/mode/1up biodiversitylibrary.org: Hampson, 1913d. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XIII. Noctuidae. - — 13:i–xiv, p.308, Plate CCXXXII. fig.11
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