Flax bibrevipennis
Flax bibrevipennis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found on Borneo (it was described from Sarawak).
| Flax bibrevipennis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Flax |
| Species: | F. bibrevipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Flax bibrevipennis Fibiger, 2011 | |
The wingspan is 9-9.5 mm. The forewings have a costa which is shorter than the posterior margin. The ground colour is light grey brown, including the fringes. The base of the costa is dark brown. There is a dark-brown quadrangular patch in the upper medial area, with a black dot in the inner lower area. The crosslines are brown, except for the terminal line, which is indicated by dark-brown interveinal dots. The hindwings are grey. The underside of the forewings is unicolorous brown and the underside of the hindwings is grey with a discal spot.
References
- Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.
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