Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Erebidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Bocula | |
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Bocula pallens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in northern India, and Sri Lanka.
Description
Wingspan about 22mm. Male with fasciculate antennae. Anal tuft very large. Underside of fore wings with a patch of differently formed scales on median nervure. Hind wings shortened, with a large patch of flocculent scaled below costa, the costal neuration being distorted downwards. Male with a patch of curved woolly hair on apical part of margin of hind wing. Male ochreous brown. Fore wings with traces of antemedial, medial, and postmedial speckled lines. A purplish rufous marginal band narrowing to apex and outer angle and with a slight indentation near apex. A marginal series of pale specks present. Hind wings whitish. Female has inner edge of the marginal band of hind wings more curved inwards at center.