Flax kuchingi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found on Borneo (it was described from Sarawak).
| Flax kuchingi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Flax |
| Species: | F. kuchingi
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| Binomial name | |
| Flax kuchingi Fibiger, 2011
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The wingspan is about 11 mm. The labial palps, head, patagia, tegulae and thorax are grey brown, suffused with dark-brown scales. The ground colour of the forewings (including fringes) is grey brown. The base of the costa is grey brown with black scales. There is a rather indistinct dark brown quadrangular patch in the upper medial area, with a black dot in the inner dorsal area. The crosslines are brown, outlined in beige, except for the terminal line which is only indicated by black-brown interveinal dots. The hindwings are grey. The underside of the forewings is unicolorous brown and the underside of the hindwings is grey with a discal spot.
References
edit- Fibiger, Michael (2011). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2842: 1–188.