Nyctemera latistriga
| Nyctemera latistriga | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subtribe: | Nyctemerina |
| Genus: | Nyctemera |
| Species: | N. latistriga |
| Binomial name | |
| Nyctemera latistriga Walker, 1854 | |
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Nyctemera latistriga is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Borneo to the Philippines[1] and Lombok.
Description
Adults are day-flying.[2] Differs from Nyctemera lacticinia in having the broad white streak on base of inner margin of fore wing replaced by narrow streaks on costa, vein 1, and innermargin and by a very broad streak below he median nervure. The postmedial band of spots with the upper two conjoined. The fourth is very large and fifth absent.[3]
References
- ↑ Nyctemera at funet
- ↑ The Moths of Borneo
- ↑ 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.
- Vos, de R. & Černý, K. 1999: A review of the Philippine species of the genus Nyctemera Hubner, [1820] with descriptions of new species and subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Nyctemerinae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 20 (2): 133-188.
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