Bastilla angularis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833. It has an Oriental and Panafrican distribution. India (Bihar & Jharkhand), it is found in Eswatini, Gabon, Cabo Verde, São Tomé, Réunion and Madagascar.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Bastilla |
Species: | B. angularis
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Binomial name | |
Bastilla angularis (Boisduval, 1833)
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The adults have a wingspan of about 40 mm. The larvae feed on Phyllanthus species.
References
edit- ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
External links
edit- Holloway, J. D. & Miller, Scott E. (2003). "The composition, generic placement and host-plant relationships of the joviana-group in the Parallelia generic complex" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Invertebrate Systematics. 17: 111–128.