''Abraxas adilluminata'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metr ...

. It is found in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

.Inoue, H. (1984) The genus Abraxas of Taiwan. Bulletin / Faculty of Domestic Sciences of

Otsuma Women's University Founded in 1949, is located in Sanbanchō, near the Imperial Palace ( Kokyo) in the heart of Chiyoda, Tokyo. It began as a sewing school opened by Otsuma Kotaka was born on June 21, 1884 in Kawashiri, Kōzan Town, Sera County, Hiroshima Prefe ...

, 20: 93-128.

References

Moths described in 1984 Abraxini Moths of Taiwan {{Abraxini-stub