''Prismosticta microprisma'' 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 ...
in the family
Endromidae
Endromidae is a family of moths. It was long considered to be a monotypic family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, ''Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the Palaearctic regio The family now consists of several genera and about ...
first described by Vadim V. Zolotuhin and Thomas Joseph Witt in 2009. It is found in the Chinese provinces of
Guangdong
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and
Guangxi and in
Vietnam
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,
Thailand
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and
Cambodia
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.
References
Moths described in 2009
Prismosticta
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