Nyctemera adversata, the marbled white moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johann Gottlieb Schaller in 1788. It is found in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar, China territories like Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hunan, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Japan (northern part of Honshu Island), Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java and Borneo) Philippines.[1]

Marbled white moth
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Nyctemera
Species:
N. adversata
Binomial name
Nyctemera adversata
(Schaller, 1788)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena adversata Schaller, 1788
  • Phalaena Geometra adversata Schaller, 1788
  • Nyctemera plagifera Walker, 1854
  • Nyctemera plagifera f. laticolora Reich, 1926

Nyctemera adversata is a day-flying species.

The larvae feed on Erechtites, Erigeron, Gynura, Picris, and Senecio species.

References

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  1. ^ Spitsyn, V. M.; Bolotov, I. N.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Bolotov, N. I. (July 13, 2015). "First record of Nyctemera adversata (Schaller, 1788) and N. carissima (Swinhoe, 1891) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Myanmar". Check List. 11 (4): 1687. doi:10.15560/11.4.1687. ISSN 1809-127X.
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