Dictyestra

Angle network armyworm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Dictyestra
Sugi, 1982
Species: D. dissectus
Binomial name
Dictyestra dissectus
(Walker, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Heliophobus dissectus Walker, 1865
  • Dictyestra dissecta
  • Mamestra crucifer Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Dictyestra crucifer

Dictyestra is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. It contains only one species, Dictyestra dissectus, which is found from India to Indo-China, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Sundaland and the Philippines and from Sulawesi to the Moluccas and New Guinea.[1][2] The species is commonly known as Angle network armyworm.[3]

Description

Wingspan is about 45mm. Fore wings are long and narrow. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Head and thorax dark brown. Abdomen fuscous with pale extremity. Fore wings are dark brown with ochreous veins. Sub-basal, antemedial and postmedial double lines are ochreous, where the second curved and last angled beyond the cell and met by a streak from apex. There is an ochreous doubly-curved submarginal line present. Hind wings are fuscous brown.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Dictyestra at funet
  2. ↑ "キミャクヨトウ Dictyestra dissecta (Walker, 1865)". jpmoth.org. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Dictyestra dissecta (Walker, 1865) 角網夜蛾". 臺灣蛾訊 MOTHS of Taiwan. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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