Iambia thwaitesii
| Iambia thwaitesii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Subfamily: | Amphipyrinae |
| Genus: | Iambia |
| Species: | I. thwaitesii |
| Binomial name | |
| Iambia thwaitesii (Moore, 1885) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Iambia thwaitesii is a moth of the Noctuidae family.
Distribution
It is found in India,[1] Sri Lanka, Kenya and Nigeria.[2]
Description
Wingspan about 30mm. Body pale brown. Head and thorax marked with black. Palpi with very short third joint. Male lack tufts of hair on the claspers. Male without a cleft corneous ridge on vertex of head. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Fore wings with pale brown, irrorated and blotched with black. The sub-basal line obscured by black blotches. Antemedial and postmedial double lines reduced to series of striae. Postmedial lines are suffused with diffused black inside it. Reniform is black and ill-defined. There is a broad sub-marginal waved black band form costa to vein 4. A marginal series of prominent black spots. Hind wing dark fuscous. Ventral side of hind wing with cell-spot and postmedial line. Some specimens have more variegated chestnut and dark brown fore wings. Orbicular and reniform fuscous. The apical part of the submarginal band forming a prominent black patch.[3]
References
- ↑ Hewitson & Moore, 1886. New Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the late Mr.W.S.Atkinson.
- ↑ afromoths
- ↑ 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.
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