Polylopha epidesma

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Polylopha epidesma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Polylopha
Species:
P. epidesma
Binomial name
Polylopha epidesma
Lower, 1901 [1]
Synonyms
  • Oxygrapha porpaciasMeyrick, 1908
  • Peronea epidesmaMeyrick, 1910
  • Colocyttara epidesmaTurner, 1925

Polylopha epidesma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901. [2] It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Australia. [3]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ashy-grey whitish, mixed with greenish leaden, and strewn with numerous tufts of ashy-grey scales, which become blackish posteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous, but lighter on the basal half. [4] Its larval food plant is Polyalthia longifolia . [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Tortricidae.com
  2. ↑ "Species Details: Polylopha epidesma Lower, 1901". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.


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