Lygephila lubrosa is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1901. It is found in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Lygephila lubrosa
Female Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa
Male Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lygephila
Species:
L. lubrosa
Binomial name
Lygephila lubrosa
(Staudinger, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Toxocampa lubrica var. lubrosa Staudinger, 1901
Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria

The wingspan is 42–46 mm for L. l. lubrosa and 34–43 mm for L. l. orbonaria. The forewings are almost unicolorous with a poorly developed wing pattern. The subbasal line is represented by groups of dark scales on the veins. The antemedial line is semicircular and the reniform stigma is small and indistinct. The orbicular stigma is small and dot-like and the postmedial and subterminal lines are distinct and the terminal line consists of a row of black dots on the veins. The hindwings are pale ochreous.[1]

Subspecies

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  • Lygephila lubrosa lubrosa (Kazakhstan: valley of the river Ili)
  • Lygephila lubrosa orbonaria Stshetkin YuL & Stshetkin YuYu, 1994 (south-western Tajikistan: Pianj river valley)

References

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  1. ^ Pekarsky, Oleg (2014). "Taxonomic studies of the Lygephila lubrica (Freyer, 1842) species complex with notes on other species in the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Toxocampinae)". ZooKeys (452): 107–129. doi:10.3897/zookeys.452.8152. PMC 4258635. PMID 25493056.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.