''Somabrachys nisseni'' 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

Somabrachyidae The Somabrachyidae are a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera.Geertsema, H. (2000). Studies on African zygaenoid moths (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea): ''Parapsycharium'' n. gen. (Somabrachyidae) from the Western Cape province, South Africa. ''Afri ...

family. It was described by Powell in 1916.

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Zygaenoidea Moths described in 1916 {{Zygaenoidea-stub