Pardoxia
Pardoxia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nolidae |
Genus: | Pardoxia Moreno & González Prada, 1981[1] |
Species: | P. graellsii |
Binomial name | |
Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837) | |
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Pardoxia is a genus of moths in the Nolidae family. It contains only one species, the Yellow Drab (Pardoxia graellsii) which is found in France, Spain,[2] Turkey, Iraq, China, India, Myanmar, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Ethiopia, Ghana, La Réunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Gambia, Yemen and Zimbabwe.[3]
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Altahea officinalis, Lavatera olbia and Gossypium species.
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