Biology:Micraloa lineola

Short description: Moth

Micraloa lineola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Micraloa
Species:	M. lineola
Binomial name
Micraloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
Bombyx lineola Fabricius, 1793 Aloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793) Micraloa lineola Spilosoma punctistriga Walker, 1855 Aloa candidula Walker, 1855 Aloa diminuta Walker, 1855 Spilosoma strigata Walker, 1869 Creatonotus rubricosta Moore, 1872 Aloa insolata Swinhoe, 1889 Diacrisia felderi Rothschild, 1910 Estigmene octomaculata Rothschild, 1933

Micraloa lineola is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. It is found in India , Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

In, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II, the species is described with Micraloa emittens, as follows:

Antennae of male bipectinate, serrate in female. Head and thorax pinkish ochreous. Abdomen crimson above with series of dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous. A black fascia below median nervure from before the middle of cell to some way beyond its lower angle, the veins crossing it pale; a black sunmarginal streak above vein 5. Hind wing whitish, some specimens with a black spots at end of cell. The S.Indian and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) forms emittens and flora are much suffused with pink than the Northern forms; in the former the markings of the fore wing are prominent, in the latter obsolete or only developed at end of cell. Of the Northern forms, diminutus has the markings prominent; candidulus narrow or almost obsolete; puntistriga with a speck at end of cell and streak above vein 5 only.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6839006 entry