Flax tamborai is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found in Indonesia (it was described from Mount Tambora on Sumbawa).
| Flax tamborai | |
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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. tamborai
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| Binomial name | |
| Flax tamborai Fibiger, 2011
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The wingspan is 10.5–12 mm.
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.