''Stictane obscura'' 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 subfamily

Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. It was described by

Hiroshi Inoue Hiroshi Inoue or Inoue Hiroshi may refer to: * Hiroshi Inoue (entomologist) (1917–2008), Japanese lepidopterist * Hiroshi Inoue (bryologist) was a Japanese botanist specializing in bryology.Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

.''Japanese Moths''
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References

* Moths described in 1976 Nudariina {{Nudariina-stub