Biology:Epipsestis nigropunctata

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Short description: Species of false owlet moth

Epipsestis nigropunctata
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Epipsestis
Species:
E. nigropunctata
Binomial name
Epipsestis nigropunctata
(Sick, 1941)
Synonyms
  • Polyploca nigropunctata Sick, 1941
  • Epipsestis perornata sicki Yoshimoto, 1988

Epipsestis nigropunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae.[1] It is found in China , Japan [2] (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku), Korea, the Russian Far East and Nepal.[3]

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.[4]

Subspecies

  • Epipsestis nigropunctata nigropunctata (Nepal, China: Yunnan)
  • Epipsestis nigropunctata perornata Inoue, 1972 (south-eastern Russia, Japan, Korean Peninsula, China: Shaanxi)

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Polyploca nigropunctata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57647. 
  2. Sick, 1941, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 1941: 5.
  3. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3941.1.1. 
  4. A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East

Wikidata ☰ Q20686780 entry