Nagadeba

Nagadeba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Calpinae
Genus:	Nagadeba Walker, 1866

Nagadeba is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. ^[1]

Description

Palpi very long and slender. Second joint reaching far above vertex of head. Third joint long with a tuft of hair on inner side. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia naked. Forewings with acute apex. The outer margin angled at middle. Hindwings with produced outer margin to points at veins 4 and 7. Cilia crenulate. Vein 5 from middle of discocellulars. ^[2]

Species

• Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, 1865
• Nagadeba polia (Hampson, 1891)

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Nagadeba​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved August 1, 2018.
2. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.