''Somabrachys infuscata'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
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 w ...
in the family
Somabrachyidae
The Somabrachyidae are a 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, South Africa. ''Afri ...
. 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 Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich ...
in 1830.
Subspecies
*''Somabrachys infuscata robusta''
Hering, 1933
References
Zygaenoidea
Moths described in 1830
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