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Erygia plagifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Erygia
Species:
E. plagifera
Binomial name
Erygia plagifera
(Walker, 1859) [1][ failed verification]
Synonyms
  • Briarda plagifera Walker, 1859
  • Felinia plagifera

Erygia plagifera is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Singapore. [2]

Adults are cinereous, tinged with ferruginous. The forewings have a blackish band near the base and a large blackish spot on the reniform mark, as well as a diffuse blackish spot near the tip of the costa. The exterior and submarginal lines are brown, double and denticulated and the space along their borders is somewhat clouded. The hindwings are pale cinereous and semihyaline and have very broad brown borders. [3]

References

  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Erygia Guenee 1852". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019.
  2. ^ Lepidopterorum Catalogus
  3. ^ Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3