Faeculoides Plumbifusa
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''Faeculoides plumbifusa'' 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
Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
first described by George Hampson in 1907. It is known from the mountains of central
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. Adults have been found in September. The
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is about 11 mm. The forewing is long and narrow and the reniform stigma is narrow. It is blackish, except at the ventral margin where it is brown on both sides of the black postmedial line. The fringes are blackish. The crosslines are almost untraceable. There is an indistinct discal spot on the hindwing.


References

* Micronoctuini Moths described in 1907 {{Micronoctuini-stub