Tactusa pars
Tactusa pars is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2010. It is known from western Thailand, western Malaysia and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.
| Tactusa pars | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Tactusa |
| Species: | T. pars |
| Binomial name | |
| Tactusa pars Fibiger, 2010 | |
The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is yellow, with a very large triangular patch, including the fringes, that extends from the antemedial point on the costa, to the apex and to the tornal edge. There is a light-brown triangular patch present subapically by the costa. Parts of the postmedial and subterminal lines are present and are whitish. The terminal line is indicated by blackish-brown interneural spots. Parts of the fringes are basally whitish, together forming a line. The hindwing is dark grey, with a very faint discal spot and the underside is unicolorous grey.
The biotope is a moist mainly broad-leaf forest with bushes and herbaceous plants, close to a river. All specimens are recorded at light in the middle of September.
References
- Fibiger, Michael (2010). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2583: 1–119.
- Fibiger, Michael; Han, Hui-Lin & Kononenko, Vladimir S. (2011). "Five new species and one new subspecies of Micronoctuidae from China, with a checklist of Chinese species, including Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea, Micronoctuidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2777: 1–13.