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Attonda adspersa

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4818588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Attonda adspersa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1874. It is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, India, Sulawesi, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, New Guinea and the Solomons.

The wingspan of this species is around 29 mm to 32 mm.

Habitats

This species occurs mainly in lowland forests, and rarely in lower mountain forests up to 1000 m.

References

External links

Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Attonda adspersa Felder & Rogenhofer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved February 13, 2020. With images of genitalia.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4818588. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1874, 1000 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Attonda adspersa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.