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Basalia nilgiroides

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Basalia nilgiroides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Basalia
Species:
B. nilgiroides
Binomial name
Basalia nilgiroides
Fibiger, 2008

Basalia nilgiroides is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008. It is known from the Nilgiri Hills of south-central India.

Adults have been recorded in April.

The wingspan is about 13 mm.

References

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  • Fibiger, Michael (2008). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1867: 1–136.