Nyctemera adversata

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Marbled white moth
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Nyctemera
Species:
N. adversata
Binomial name
Nyctemera adversata
(Schaller, 1788)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena adversataSchaller, 1788
  • Phalaena Geometra adversataSchaller, 1788
  • Nyctemera plagiferaWalker, 1854
  • Nyctemera plagifera f. laticoloraReich, 1926

Nyctemera adversata, the marbled white moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johann Gottlieb Schaller in 1788. It is found in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar, China territories like Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hunan, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Japan (northern part of Honshu Island), Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java and Borneo) Philippines. [1]

Nyctemera adversata is a day-flying species.

The larvae feed on Erechtites , Erigeron , Gynura , Picris , and Senecio species.

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References

  1. Spitsyn, V. M.; Bolotov, I. N.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Bolotov, N. I. (July 13, 2015). "First record of Nyctemera adversata (Schaller, 1788) and N. carissima (Swinhoe, 1891) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Myanmar". Check List. 11 (4). doi: 10.15560/11.4.1687 . ISSN   1809-127X.