Audea stenophaea
| Audea stenophaea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Tribe: | Audeini |
| Genus: | Audea |
| Species: | A. stenophaea |
| Binomial name | |
| Audea stenophaea Hampson, 1913 | |
Audea stenophaea is a moth of the family Erebidae.[1][2] It is found in India, where it has been recorded from the Palni Hills[3] and Hyderabad.[4]
Description
[edit]The head is black and the abdomen is ochreous white with a lateral series of black spots. The forewing is blackish-brown mixed with some whitish. The hindwing is pure white with a black terminal band.
The underside of forewing is white with a fuscous brown postmedial band. The underside of hindwing has a blackish spot at the middle of costa.[1]
The wingspan is 46 millimeters.[1]
References
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- 1 2 3 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Seitz, Adalbert (1912). The Macrolepidoptera of the world : a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. London Natural History Museum Library. Stuttgart : Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes (Alfred Kernen).
- ↑ Kühne, Lars, 2005: Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 2: 1-220
- ↑ Singh, Mitul and Vijul (2025-06-14). "Audea stenophaea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2025-07-10.