Lachana ladakensis
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| Lachana ladakensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Lachana |
| Species: | L. ladakensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lachana ladakensis Moore, 1888 | |
Lachana ladakensis is a species of moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae. It is found in the mountains of Ladakh, in Kashmir in northwestern India.
It was described by Frederic Moore in 1888 as the first species of his new monotypic genus Lachana.[1] The holotype is the original specimen studied by Moore and it is kept at the Natural History Museum in London. It remained the only species in Lachana until 2008, when Tatyana A. Trofimova moved three species from Gynaephora to the genus and described a new species.[2]
