Dysgonia rigidistria

Dysgonia rigidistria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Dysgonia
Species: D. rigidistria
Binomial name
Dysgonia rigidistria
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Parallelia rigidistria (Guenée, 1852)

Dysgonia rigidistria [1] is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found on the Indian Peninsula and Sri Lanka.

Taxonomy

Dysgonia calefasciens (Walker, 1858) and Dysgonia correctana (Walker, 1865) are no longer considered synonyms of Dysgonia rigidistria.

Description

Wingspan is about 56mm. A bronze brown colored moth. Fore wings with a white speck found in the cell. There is an erect straight medial whitish band with a dark line on its outer edge. An indistinct dark waved sub-marginal line and a marginal black specks series can be seen. Abdomen and hind wings are fuscous, where there are traces of medial and sub-marginal pale lines on hind wings. A marginal black speck series present. Ventral side with two waved postmedial line to each wing.[2]

References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
  2. 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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