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Parabraxas nigromacularia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Epicopeiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Parabraxas

Parabraxas nigromacularia is a moth in the Epicopeiidae family. It was described by Leech in 1897. It is found in central China.

The wingspan is about 50 mm. Adults are white, with the costa and outer margin of the forewings broadly yellow, the former dotted with black, the latter transversed by two series of black spots and bordered inwardly by a third series. There is an interrupted central band and a series of five black spots from this to the inner margin. The extreme base of the hindwings is black and there are a number of large black spots.

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Parabraxas nigromacularia Wikipedia