Common butterfly moth | |
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From the Western Ghats | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Callidulidae |
Genus: | Tetragonus |
Species: | T. catamitus
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Binomial name | |
Tetragonus catamitus | |
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Tetragonus catamitus, the common butterfly moth,[2] or Philippine callidulid moth,[3] is a moth of the family Callidulidae. It was first described by Carl Geyer in 1832. Noted from Taiwan, north-eastern India, south-west India, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, the Tenasserim Hills of Myanmar and from Java.[4] They are day-flying moths that can be easily mistaken for a butterfly due to the position in which they hold their wings.