Buzara frontinus

Buzara frontinus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the coastal areas of southern Queensland and New South Wales.

Buzara frontinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Buzara
Species:
B. frontinus
Binomial name
Buzara frontinus
(Donovan, 1805)
Synonyms
  • Parallia frontina
  • Noctua scapularis Guérin-Méneville, [1831]
  • Ophiusa pyrrhargyra Walker, 1858
  • Spanocala atrata Scott, 1891
  • Papilio frontinus Donovan, 1805
  • Dysgonia frontinus (Donovan, 1805) [1]

The wingspan is about 60 mm.

The larvae feed on Breynia species.

References
  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.



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