Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Species D. dissectus | |
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Similar Chytonix, Iambia, Euplexia, Mniotype, Athetis | ||
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. The species is commonly known as Angle network armyworm.
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.