Nebulosa sirenia

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Nebulosa sirenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Dioptinae
Tribe: Dioptini
Genus: Nebulosa
Species: N. sirenia
Binomial name
Nebulosa sirenia
(Hering, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Polypoetes sirenia Hering, 1925

Nebulosa sirenia is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in Bolivia and south-eastern Peru.

The length of the forewings is 16-17 mm. The wing pattern is variable, especially in the hindwings, with some speciments showing a dirty gray-brown anal margin, whereas in others it is completely white.

References

  • Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.
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