Bastilla vitiensis
Bastilla vitiensis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1886. It is found from the Moluccas to Palau, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and New Caledonia, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Borneo and Java.
Bastilla vitiensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Bastilla |
Species: | B. vitiensis |
Binomial name | |
Bastilla vitiensis (Butler, 1886) | |
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Larvae have been recorded on Eucalyptus and Hibiscus, but this is atypical for the genus and needs verification.
References
- Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
External links
- Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Bastilla vitiensis Butler". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
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