Drosophantis caeruleata (Hampson, 1893) is a animal in the Pyralidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Drosophantis caeruleata (Hampson, 1893)

Drosophantis caeruleata (Hampson, 1893)

Drosophantis caeruleata is the only species in the Crambidae moth genus Drosophantis, found across South, East and Southeast Asia and Australia.

Family
Genus
Drosophantis
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Drosophantis caeruleata (Hampson, 1893)

Drosophantis is a genus of moths in the family Crambidae. This genus includes just a single species: Drosophantis caeruleata, first described by Hampson in 1893. According to a 1994 publication by Robinson et al., Drosophantis caeruleata has a distribution ranging from India and Sri Lanka, eastward to Taiwan, Thailand, Sumbawa, and Australia.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pyralidae Drosophantis

More from Pyralidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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