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Micraeschus

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Micraeschus is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyNoctuidae

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Micraeschus is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.

==Description== Palpi very slender and obliquely upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae with fasciculated cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Legs naked, with normal spurs. Forewing with veins 7 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with stalked 3 and 4. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.

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