Xylecata xanthura
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| Xylecata xanthura | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Xylecata |
| Species: | X. xanthura |
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| Xylecata xanthura (Plötz, 1880) | |
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Xylecata xanthura is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Carl Plötz in 1880, originally under the genus Leptosoma. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo.[1]