Nyctemera latistriga

Nyctemera latistriga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subtribe:	Nyctemerina
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. 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 fore wing 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]

References

1. Nyctemera at funet
2. The Moths of Borneo
3. 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.

• Vos, de R. & Černý, K. 1999: A review of the Philippine species of the genus Nyctemera Hubner, [1820] with descriptions of new species and subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Nyctemerinae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 20 (2): 133-188.