Digama fasciata

Digama fasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Digama
Species: D. fasciata
Binomial name
Digama fasciata
Butler, 1877

Digama fasciata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in north-western India and Sri Lanka.

Description

Antennae of male bipectinate where the terminal one-fifth ciliated. Fore wing with a fold on inner margin on upperside. In female, head and thorax brownish fuscous and abdomen orange-yellow, with that the patagia have each a black streak. Fore wing greyish fuscous. There are three black strigae on the costa, and two spots in the cell. Discocellulars are black. Three spots found in interno-median interspace. There is a large sub-basal spot above inner margin and two small spots beyond it. A spot beyond lower angle of cell and a curved irregular sub-marginal band present. Hind wings are orange-yellow.[1]

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.

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