Tactusa pars

Tactusa pars is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2010. It is known from western Thailand, western Malaysia and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Tactusa pars
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Tactusa
Species:
T. pars
Binomial name
Tactusa pars
Fibiger, 2010

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is yellow, with a very large triangular patch, including the fringes, that extends from the antemedial point on the costa, to the apex and to the tornal edge. There is a light-brown triangular patch present subapically by the costa. Parts of the postmedial and subterminal lines are present and are whitish. The terminal line is indicated by blackish-brown interneural spots. Parts of the fringes are basally whitish, together forming a line. The hindwing is dark grey, with a very faint discal spot and the underside is unicolorous grey.

The biotope is a moist mainly broad-leaf forest with bushes and herbaceous plants, close to a river. All specimens are recorded at light in the middle of September.

References

  • Fibiger, Michael (2010). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2583: 1–119.
  • Fibiger, Michael; Han, Hui-Lin & Kononenko, Vladimir S. (2011). "Five new species and one new subspecies of Micronoctuidae from China, with a checklist of Chinese species, including Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea, Micronoctuidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2777: 1–13.


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