Biology:Nyctemera tripunctaria

Short description: Species of moth

Nyctemera tripunctaria
Illustration from Cramer and Stoll's De Uitlandsche Kapellen, 1779
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Nyctemera
Species:	N. tripunctaria
Binomial name
Nyctemera tripunctaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Phalaena Geometra tripunctaria Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena petulca Linnaeus, 1768 Nyctemera atralba Hübner, [1820] Nyctemera perconfusa Roepke, 1948 [1949] Deilemera aequimargo Rothschild, 1920 Nyctemera tripunctaria elzuniaekruscheae Bryk, 1937 Leptosoma assimile Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863 Leptosoma confusum Swinhoe, 1892 Leptosoma kondekum Swinhoe, 1892 Deilemera coequalis Swinhoe, 1915 Deilemera absurdum strictifascia Rothschild, 1915 Nyctemera celsa Walker, 1864 Nyctemera tripunctaria candidissima Seitz, 1915 Nyctemera cydippe Weymer, 1885 Deilemera niasana Swinhoe, 1906 Deilemera optata Swinhoe, 1903 Deilemera lombokiana Swinhoe, 1903 Nyctemera floresicola Roepke, 1954 Nyctemera subvelata Walker, 1864 Nyctemera velans Walker, 1864 Leptosoma infuscata Hopffer, 1874

Nyctemera tripunctaria is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in southern China , Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sundaland, the Philippines and on Sulawesi.

Adults are day flying.

Subspecies

• Nyctemera tripunctaria tripunctaria
• Nyctemera tripunctaria aequimargo (Rothschild, 1920)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria assimile (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863) (Java)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria celsa Walker, 1864 (Cambodia, southern China)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria cydippe Weymer, 1885 (Nias)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria lombokiana (Swinhoe, 1903)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria simalura Roepke, 1957 (Simalur Island)
• Nyctemera tripunctaria subvelata Walker, 1864 (Sulawesi)

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. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/NEVA_20_0133-0188.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13523795 entry