''Bastilla missionarii'' 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

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...

first described by

Gustaaf Hulstaert Gustaaf Hulstaert (1900–1990) was a Belgian missionary who served with the CICM Missionaries, Missionaries of Scheut in the Belgian Congo from 1925. A keen entomologist, Hulstaert was interested in the Lepidoptera and before his posting to th ...

in 1924. It is only known from the

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References

External links

*Holloway, J. D. & Miller, Scott E. (2003)
"The composition, generic placement and host-plant relationships of the ''joviana''-group in the ''Parallelia'' generic complex"
''Invertebrate Systematics''. 17: 111–128. Bastilla (moth) Moths described in 1924 {{Catocalini-stub