Marbled white moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 | |
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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.
Nyctemera is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The genus includes the species Nyctemera annulata and Nyctemera amica, which are closely related and are able to interbreed.
Nyctemera baulus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from India to Samoa. Records include Queensland, Indonesia and New Guinea.
Nyctemera lacticinia, the common nyctemera, is a species of moth inf the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found in Japan, from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar to Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
The Nyctemerina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae.
Nyctemera arctata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia. The species was described by Francis Walker in 1856.
Aethalida owadai is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Yasunori Kishida in 2005. It is found on Selayar Island and Flores in Indonesia.
Nyctemera kinabaluensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Reich in 1932. It is found on Borneo.
Nyctemera carissima is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1891. It is found in China, north-eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Nyctemera muelleri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found on Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, as well as in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Nyctemera ludekingii is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found on Sumatra and Borneo.
Nyctemera cenis is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777 and is found in China, Taiwan, Japan, the north-western Himalayas, north-eastern India and Myanmar.
Nyctemera latistriga is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Borneo to the Philippines and Lombok.
Nyctemera pagenstecheri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1898. It is found on Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Borneo.
Nyctemera sonticum is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the Philippines and Borneo (Sabah).
Nyctemera calcicola is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1988. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of upper montane forest on limestone.
Nyctemera kiauensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1976. It is found on Borneo.
Nyctemera kinibalina is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Snellen in 1899. It is found on Borneo.
Nyctemera regularis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Snellen in 1880. It is found on Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Nyctemera tenompoka is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1988. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of secondary montane forests and agricultural terraces on mountain slopes.
Nyctemera tripunctaria is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in southern China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sundaland, the Philippines and on Sulawesi.