Nyctemera latistriga explained

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]

References

• 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) ]. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo . N.F. . 20 . 2 . 133–188.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . Nyctemera latistriga Walker, 1854 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . January 21, 2019.
2. Web site: Holloway . Jeremy Daniel . Nyctemera latistriga Walker . The Moths of Borneo . January 21, 2019.
3. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

   . George Hampson . 1894 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.