| Risoba repugnans | |
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| Risoba repugnans ssp. albistriata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Nolidae |
| Genus: | Risoba |
| Species: | R. repugnans |
| Binomial name | |
| Risoba repugnans (Walker, 1865) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.
It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands. [1]
It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot. [2]
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