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Saurita cretheis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Arctiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Saurita

Saurita cretheis is a moth in the Arctiidae family. It was described by Druce in 1883. It is found in Ecuador.

Adults are black-brown. The forewings have two slight hyaline streaks in the end of the cell and a narrow wedge-shaped streak below the cell and a series of patches between the bases of veins 2 to 7. The hindwings have a hyaline streak in and beyond the lower end of the cell and a short streak beyond the upper angle.

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Saurita cretheis Wikipedia