''Phytometra pentheus'' is a species of

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

James Farish Malcolm Fawcett James Farish Malcolm Fawcett (born 1856) was an English cavalry officer of the 5th Lancers. He was also an entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Life The son of James Fawcett of Edinburgh, who was resident at Scaleby Castle in 1847, he was ...

in 1916. It is found in

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

and

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

References

*Fawcett, J. M. (1916)
"Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911–13"
''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London''. 2: 707–737, pl. 1. Boletobiinae Moths of Africa Moths described in 1916 Taxa named by J. Malcolm Fawcett {{Boletobiinae-stub