Risoba repugnans | |
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Risoba repugnans ssp. albistriata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Nolidae |
Genus: | Risoba |
Species: | R. repugnans
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Binomial name | |
Risoba repugnans (
Walker, 1865)
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Synonyms | |
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Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.
It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands. [1]
It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot. [2]
The larvae had been recorded on Melastoma sp. [4]
Risoba repugnans | |
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Risoba repugnans ssp. albistriata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Nolidae |
Genus: | Risoba |
Species: | R. repugnans
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Binomial name | |
Risoba repugnans (
Walker, 1865)
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Synonyms | |
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Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.
It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands. [1]
It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot. [2]
The larvae had been recorded on Melastoma sp. [4]