The Abrostolini are a small
tribe
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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 ...
s in the
Plusiinae subfamily
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, consisting of the genera ''
Abrostola'' and ''
Mouralia''.
[Kravchenko, V. D., Ronkay, L., Behounek, G., & Mueller, G. C. (2015). PLusiinae (Excl. Abrostolini)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Ethiopia. A faunistical survey with biogeographical comments. ''Zootaxa'', ''4013''(2), 235-251.]
References
Plusiinae
Moth tribes
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