Nola ceylonica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Nolidae |
Genus: | Nola |
Species: | N. ceylonica |
Binomial name | |
Nola ceylonica Hampson, 1893 | |
Synonyms | |
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Nola ceylonica is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka. [1] [2]
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest.
Nola is a genus of moths described by William Elford Leach in 1815. They are the namesake of the subfamily Nolinae and the family Nolidae. This genus occurs worldwide wherever suitable habitat is present.
Harish (Honnayya) S. Gaonkar is an Indian specialist on butterflies who contributed to the Zoological Museum at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and wrote a 1996 compilation of butterflies of Western Ghats, South India cataloguing 330 species. Gaonkar earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Meganola brunellus is a moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Sundaland, Queensland and the Bismarck Islands. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.
Nola analis is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Wileman and West in 1928. It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.
Nola angulata is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1888. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Nola cingalesa is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola dentilinea is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1909. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola fasciata is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Borneo, Taiwan, New Guinea and Australia.
Nola fuscibasalis is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Inouenola grisalis is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka China and Vietnam.
Nola leucoscopula is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1907. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola lucidalis is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Borneo, Java, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Nola mesotherma is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1909. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola pascua is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1885. It is found in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Nola rufa is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1900. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola rufimixta is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1909. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Nola streptographia is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1900. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Nola squalida is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1870. It is found in Turkestan, Himalaya, Sikkim, Bhutan, China, India and Sri Lanka.
Nola tumulifera is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka.