Cerma cerintha, the tufted bird dropping moth, is an owlet moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1826.[1][2]

Cerma cerintha
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Cerma
Species:
C. cerintha
Binomial name
Cerma cerintha
(Treitschke, 1826)

The MONA or Hodges number for Cerma cerintha is 9062.[3]

Cerma cerintha museum specimens

References

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  1. ^ "Cerma cerintha report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Cerma cerintha". Retrieved 2019-09-23.

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