Nyctemera latistriga

Nyctemera latistriga
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
Synonyms
  • Leptosoma inconstans Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863
  • Leptosoma leucostigma Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863
  • Leptosoma nubecula Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863
  • Leptosoma pallens Snellen von Vollenhoven, 1863
  • Leptosoma flavescens Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863
  • Tanada amplificata Walker, 1865
  • Deilemera ovada Swinhoe, 1903
  • Nyctemera latistriga negritorum Seitz, 1915
  • Nyctemera latistriga f. negritorum Bryk, 1937

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

  1. Nyctemera at funet
  2. The Moths of Borneo
  3. 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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