| Ectopatria virginea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Ectopatria |
| Species: | E. virginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectopatria virginea Lower, 1905 |
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Ectopatria virginea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in South Australia.
| “ | Male, 36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen snow-white, legs snow-white. Antennas ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa nearly straight, termen oblique, hardly rounded; snow-white, without markings; cilia snow-white. Hindwings snow-white, slightly iridescent; cilia snow-white. A distinct species, well characterised by the wholly white colour; at first sight it is not unlike Paradrim gypsina, Low., but is without markings of any kind. Adelaide, South Australia. One specimen: in October. | ” |
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—Original description by Lower |
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