''Tentasetae'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

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 ...

genus of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. Its only species, ''Tentasetae cambodiana'', is only known from

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

, where it was described from

Bokor National Park Preah Monivong Bokor National Park (, ) is a national park in southern Cambodia's Kampot Province that was established in 1993 and covers . In 2003, it was designated as an ASEAN Heritage Park. It is located in the Dâmrei Mountains, forming th ...

. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. The

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is about 12 mm.

References

* Micronoctuini Monotypic moth genera Moths of Asia {{Micronoctuini-stub