Nyctemera latistriga

Nyctemera latistriga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Nyctemera
Species:	N. latistriga
Binomial name
	Nyctemera latistriga; Walker, 1854
Synonyms
	Leptosoma inconstans Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863; Leptosoma leucostigma Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863; Leptosoma nubecula Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863; Leptosoma pallens Snellen von Vollenhoven, 1863; Leptosoma flavescens Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863; Tanada amplificata Walker, 1865; Deilemera ovada Swinhoe, 1903; Nyctemera latistriga negritorum Seitz, 1915; Nyctemera latistriga f. negritorum Bryk, 1937;

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[1] and Lombok.

Description

Adults are day flying.[2] Differs from Nyctemera lacticinia in having the broad white streak on base of inner margin of forewing replaced by narrow streaks on costa, vein 1, and innermargin and by a very broad streak below he median nervure. The postmedial band of spots with the upper two conjoined. The fourth is very large and fifth absent.[3]

gollark: Perhaps.

gollark: It's trendy.

gollark: WILLIAM Gibson.

gollark: Done.

gollark: No, only unsolar collection.

References

Savela, Markku. "Nyctemera latistriga Walker, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Nyctemera latistriga Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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.

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[1] Savela, Markku. "Nyctemera latistriga Walker, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 21, 2019.

[2] Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Nyctemera latistriga Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 21, 2019.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.