Nyctemera tripunctaria

Nyctemera tripunctaria
Illustration from Cramer and Stoll's De Uitlandsche Kapellen, 1779
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Nyctemera
Species:	N. tripunctaria
Binomial name
Nyctemera tripunctaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Phalaena Geometra tripunctariaLinnaeus, 1758 Phalaena petulcaLinnaeus, 1768 Nyctemera atralbaHübner, [1820] Nyctemera perconfusaRoepke, 1948 [1949] Deilemera aequimargoRothschild, 1920 Nyctemera tripunctaria elzuniaekruscheaeBryk, 1937 Leptosoma assimileSnellen van Vollenhoven, 1863 Leptosoma confusumSwinhoe, 1892 Leptosoma kondekumSwinhoe, 1892 Deilemera coequalisSwinhoe, 1915 Deilemera absurdum strictifasciaRothschild, 1915 Nyctemera celsaWalker, 1864 Nyctemera tripunctaria candidissimaSeitz, 1915 Nyctemera cydippeWeymer, 1885 Deilemera niasanaSwinhoe, 1906 Deilemera optataSwinhoe, 1903 Deilemera lombokianaSwinhoe, 1903 Nyctemera floresicolaRoepke, 1954 Nyctemera subvelataWalker, 1864 Nyctemera velansWalker, 1864 Leptosoma infuscataHopffer, 1874

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. ^[1]

Adults are day flying. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Nyctemera tripunctaria tripunctaria
• Nyctemera tripunctaria aequimargo(Rothschild, 1920)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria assimile(Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863) (Java)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria celsaWalker, 1864 (Cambodia, southern China)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria cydippeWeymer, 1885 (Nias)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria lombokiana(Swinhoe, 1903)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria simaluraRoepke, 1957 (Simalur Island)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria subvelataWalker, 1864 (Sulawesi)

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Nyctemera tripunctaria (Linnaeus, 1758)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
2. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Nyctemera tripunctaria Linnaeus". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved September 4, 2019.

• de Vos, Rob; Černý, Karel (1999). "A review of the Philippine species of the genus Nyctemera Hübner, [1820] with descriptions of new species and subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Nyctemerinae)" (PDF). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. N.F. 20 (2): 133–188.