Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Erebidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Digama | |
Digama insulana is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Description
The wingspan is 24-29 mm. Antennae of male bipectinated where terminal one-fifth is ciliated. Fore wings with a fold on inner margin on upperside. Head and thorax brownish fuscous and abdomen orange-yellow. Differs from Digama hearseyana in the collar being without spots. Fore wing without the fuscous suffusion or bands. The third costal black spot from base and the second in the interno-median interspace is absent. Hind wing with some fuscous on outer margin at veins two and three.
References
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