''Cyme basitesselata'' is a

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 ...

of the subfamily

Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

Taxonomy

It was originally described as ''Asura basitesselata'' by

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist, and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

in 1913.

The Global Lepidoptera Names Index The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is a searchable database maintained by the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. It is based on card indices and scanned journals, nomenclatural catalogues and the ''Zoologica ...

(LepIndex) lists ''basitessellata'' as a junior subjunctive synonym of ''

Lyclene quadrilineata ''Asura quadrilineata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on Aru and in Australia (the Northern Territory and Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeaste ...

'' Pagenstecher, 1886. Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms lists ''Asura basitessellata'' as a synonym of ''

Asura quadrilineata ''Asura quadrilineata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on Aru and in Australia (the Northern Territory and Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeaste ...

'' (Pagenstecher, 1886). It is found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

References

Moths described in 1913 Nudariina Moths of Asia {{Nudariina-stub