Ephestris
| Ephestris | |
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| Mounted specimen on display at the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Ephestris Hübner, [1820] |
| Species: | E. melaxantha |
| Binomial name | |
| Ephestris melaxantha (Hübner, [1809]) | |
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Ephestris is a monotypic tiger moth genus in the family Erebidae. It contains the single species Ephestris melaxantha. Both the genus and species were first described by Jacob Hübner, the genus in 1820 and the species in 1809.