Diduga flavicostata
| Diduga flavicostata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Arctiidae |
| Genus: | Diduga |
| Species: | D. flavicostata |
| Binomial name | |
| Diduga flavicostata (Snellen, 1879) | |
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Diduga flavicostata is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found on Java,[1] as well as in Australia (the Northern Territory), India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, China (Jiangxi, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan) and Japan.[2]
Description
Antennae of male ciliated. Head, collar and tegulae are bright yellowish. Thorax and fore wings are dark greyish, where fore wings possess bright yellow costal area irrorated with a few black scales. Lower edge is waved. Costa black near the base and black specks on antemedial and postmedial. There is a marginal, bright yellow band with a pale waved inner edge. Cilia orange yellowish. Abdomen and hind wings are paler.[3]
References
- ↑ Diduga at funet
- ↑ Australian Faunal Directory
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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