''Brahmaea loeffleri'' 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 ...
in the family
Brahmaeidae
Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are ...
. It was described by Stefan Naumann and Ulrich Brosch in 2005. It is found on
Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
.
[Naumann, S. & Brosch, U. (2005). "Zur verbreitung der ''hearseyi''-Gruppe (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae: Brahmaea Walker, 1855) in Indonesien und auf den Philippinen". ''Galathea''. 21 (2): 97-104.]
References
Brahmaeidae
Moths described in 2005
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