Misplaced Pages

Nikaea (moth)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Genus of moths

Nikaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Callimorphina
Genus:	Nikaea Moore, 1879

Nikaea is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.

Species

The genus consists of two species.

Nikaea longipennis (Walker, 1855)
- Found in Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian).
Nikaea matsumurai Kishida, 1983
- Found in Taiwan and Ryukyu in Japan.

References

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
Savela, Markku. "Nikaea Moore, 1879". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 10, 2018.

Taxon identifiers
Nikaea	Wikidata: Q13624939 Wikispecies: Nikaea BioLib: 523993 ButMoth: 19593.0 GBIF: 1815630 iNaturalist: 736106 IRMNG: 1095925 LepIndex: 43501 Open Tree of Life: 3185399

This Callimorphina-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

v
t
e