Pardoxia
| Pardoxia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nolidae |
| Genus: | Pardoxia Moreno & González Prada, 1981[1] |
| Species: | P. graellsii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pardoxia graellsii (Feisthamel, 1837) | |
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Pardoxia is a genus of moths in the Nolidae family. It contains only one species, the Yellow Drab (Pardoxia graellsii) which is found in France, Spain,[2] Turkey, Iraq, China, India, Myanmar, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Ethiopia, Ghana, La Réunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Gambia, Yemen and Zimbabwe.[3]
Larva
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Altahea officinalis, Lavatera olbia and Gossypium species.
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