Athetis tenuis
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Athetis |
Species: | A. tenuis |
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Athetis tenuis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is known from all of Australia, including Norfolk Island as well as New Zealand.
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The larvae have been recorded feeding on the stems of young Gossypium species.
Taxonomy
[edit]Athetix tenuis was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1886 as Radinogoes tenuis from specimens collected at Peak Downs and Rockhampton in Queensland.[2]
References
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- ^ Australian Faunal Directory
- ^ Butler, A. G. (1886). "XV. Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian Region". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 4: 381–441. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1886.tb01633.x – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.