Nycteola poliophaea

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Nycteola poliophaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Nolidae
Genus: Nycteola
Species:
N. poliophaea
Binomial name
Nycteola poliophaea
(Hampson, 1907)

Nycteola poliophaea is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1907. [1] It is found in Sri Lanka [2] and India.

Description

Its forewings are pale gray with zigzag, antemedial and postmedial fasciae. There is a dark tooth visible from the sub-basal which extends to the antemedial. Its larval food plant is Eugenia . [3]

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References

  1. "Species Details: Nycteola poliophaea Hampson, 1907". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  2. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 via Academia.
  3. "Nycteola canaphaea sp. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 12 November 2018.