Dignius

Genus of moths

Dignius

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Genus:  | Dignius
(Fibiger, 2010)
Species:  |

D. buchsbaumi

Binomial name
Dignius buchsbaumi

Fibiger, 2011

Synonyms

Generic

* Dignus Fibiger, 2010 (preocc. Pelman, 1985)

Specific

* Dignus buchsbaumi Fibiger, 2010

Dignius is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Dignius buchsbaumi, is known from Bali. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger, the genus in 2010 and the species one year later.

The wingspan is about 12 mm.

## References

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* Fibiger, Michael (2010). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2583: 1–119\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1.

Taxon identifiers

Dignius|

* Wikidata: Q5276344
* Wikispecies: Dignius
* GBIF: 9529601
* IRMNG: 1472221

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