Digama fasciata
| Digama fasciata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Digama |
| Species: | D. fasciata
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| Binomial name | |
| Digama fasciata Butler, 1877
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Digama fasciata is a moth of the family Erebidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in north-western India and Sri Lanka.
Description[edit]
Antennae of male bipectinate (comb like on both sides) where the terminal one-fifth ciliated. Forewing 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. Forewing 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. Hindwings are orange yellow.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
External links[edit]
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