Lymantica polycyma

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Lymantica polycyma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lymantica
Species:
L. polycyma
Binomial name
Lymantica polycyma
Collenette, 1936 [1]
Synonyms
  • Lymantria polycyma Colette, 1936

Lymantica polycyma is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in eastern Madagascar.

This species looks similar to Lymantica malgassica (Kenrick, 1914) but smaller, with shorter antennae and no trace of pink in the body, wings and legs and with very distinctive genitalia.

The length of the males is 31–36 mm (1.2–1.4 in) and of the females 39–47 mm (1.5–1.9 in). [2]

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References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Lymantria polycyma Collenette, 1936". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ Collenette, 1936, New Lymantriidae from Madagascar, Novitates Zoologicae XL., 1936, pages 153-169, Plate 12, fig.41


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