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| Nilgerides | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Nilgerides Fibiger, 2010 |
| Species: | N. trifasciata |
| Binomial name | |
| Nilgerides trifasciata Fibiger, 2010 | |
Nilgerides is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Nilgerides trifasciata, is known from Sumatra. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 2010.
The wingspan is about 10 mm.
References
[edit]- Fibiger, Michael (2010). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2583: 1–119. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1.