Nyctemera carissima Swinhoe, 1891 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Nyctemera carissima Swinhoe, 1891

Nyctemera carissima Swinhoe, 1891

Nyctemera carissima is an Erebidae moth described by Swinhoe in 1891, found across parts of East and Southeast Asia.

Family
Genus
Nyctemera
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Nyctemera carissima Swinhoe, 1891

Nyctemera carissima is a moth species that belongs to the family Erebidae. It was first formally described by Charles Swinhoe in 1891. This moth is distributed across China (specifically within the provinces of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hunan), north-eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, northern Sumatra (Indonesia), and Myanmar.

Photo: (c) Roger C. Kendrick, all rights reserved

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Nyctemera

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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