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Dotted Ancestor
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Dotted Ancestor

Disticta atava

Disticta is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae erected by George Hampson in 1902. Its only species, Disticta atava, was first described by Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and South Africa.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 638666.