Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Uraniidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Europlema | |
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Europlema desistaria is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Taiwan, Borneo, Sulawesi, Flores and Queensland.
Description
Wingspan is about 24mm. Fore wings with evenly curved outer margin. Hind wings with slight tails at veins 4 and 7. Head and collar fuscous. thorax and first segment of abdomen white. Other segments are fuscous colored. Fore wings thickly speckled and striated with brown, fulvous and black, the inner area white slightly marked with fuscous. There is a white spot on the cilia. Hind wings with white costal area, the rest of the wing fulvous striated with black. The outline between the two area very irregular. A laden grey marginal line can be seen from the tail at vein 7 to anal angle.
Adults have a complex wingpattern consisting of shades of brown. There is a ragged white inner margin on each forewing and along the costa of each hindwing.