Nyctemera lacticinia

Common nyctemera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subtribe:	Nyctemerina
Genus:	Nyctemera
Species:	N. lacticinia
Binomial name
Nyctemera lacticinia Grote, 1873
Synonyms
Phalaena Geometra lacticinia Cramer, 1775 Deilemera latera Swinhoe, 1917 Deilemera homogona Swinhoe, 1917 Nyctemera latistriga simplicior Bryk, 1937

Nyctemera lacticinia, the common nyctemera, is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Japan, from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar to Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Description

The wingspan is about 45 mm. Male absent a tuft of hair on the tibia of fore leg. Head, collar and thorax yellowish white and spotted with black. Abdomen white where the extremity is yellowish. Three black spots on the first segment and slight black bands on the next sex above can be seen. Two paired series of lateral black spots. Fore wing hair-brownish. A broad white streak found on the base of inner margin. An oblique post-medial band of five white spots present. Hind wings white with a broad marginal brown band with irregularly curved inner edge.^[1]

Larva dull reddish with a dorsal and two lateral series of radiating tufts of fine black hairs arising from black tubercles. Two long forwardly projecting tufts are present on first somite. Pupa reddish brown where rolled-up leaf.

The larvae feed on Santalum species. The larva is dull red with three rows of verrucae with black hair on each side. It has hair pencils directed forward from the thoracic area.^[2][3]

References

1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
2. "Nyctemera lacticinia Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
3. "Nyctemera lacticinia". ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

External links

• Japanese Moths