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Platyscia

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Platyscia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Platyscia mesoscia, is found in Ghana.[1] Both the genus and species were first described by George Hampson in 1926.[2][3][4]

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Platyscia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Platyscia
Hampson, 1926
Species:
P. mesoscia
Binomial name
Platyscia mesoscia
Hampson, 1926
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