''Somabrachys infuscata'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
in the family
Somabrachyidae
The Somabrachyidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the order Lepidoptera.Geertsema, H. (2000). Studies on African zygaenoid moths (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea): ''Parapsycharium'' n. gen. (Somabrachyidae) from the Western Cape province, S ...
. It was described by
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist.
He described the butterflies and some other insects of Egypt, Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Fr ...
in 1830.
Subspecies
*''Somabrachys infuscata robusta''
Hering, 1933
References
Zygaenoidea
Moths described in 1830
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