Biology:Polylopha epidesma

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Short description: Species of moth

Polylopha epidesma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Polylopha
Species:
P. epidesma
Binomial name
Polylopha epidesma
Lower, 1901[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxygrapha porpacias Meyrick, 1908
  • Peronea epidesma Meyrick, 1910
  • Colocyttara epidesma Turner, 1925

Polylopha epidesma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901.[2] It is found in India , Sri Lanka and Australia .[3]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ashy-grey whitish, mixed with greenish leaden, and strewn with numerous tufts of ashy-grey scales, which become blackish posteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous, but lighter on the basal half.[4] Its larval food plant is Polyalthia longifolia.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Tortricidae.com
  2. ↑ "Species Details: Polylopha epidesma Lower, 1901". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e7730581b8404b05639ea7b80b41bf36. Retrieved 29 July 2018. 
  3. ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News (Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara) (79): 1–57. https://www.academia.edu/1782757/. 
  4. ↑ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 193: 1–124. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149137. 

Wikidata ☰ Q14149875 entry




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