''Aethaloessa floridalis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Crambidae described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It is found throughout of subtropical Africa, including islands of the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

and South and South-East Asia.

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"''Aethaloessa floridalis'' (Zeller, 1852)"
''Lepidoptera of French Polynesia''. by Peter Oboyski. Spilomelinae Moths described in 1852 Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller Moths of Africa Moths of Madagascar Moths of Asia {{Spilomelini-stub