Epipsestis nigropunctata
Epipsestis nigropunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae.[1] It is found in China, Japan[2] (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku), Korea, the Russian Far East and Nepal.[3]
| Epipsestis nigropunctata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Genus: | Epipsestis |
| Species: | E. nigropunctata |
| Binomial name | |
| Epipsestis nigropunctata (Sick, 1941) | |
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The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.[4]
Subspecies
- Epipsestis nigropunctata nigropunctata (Nepal, China: Yunnan)
- Epipsestis nigropunctata perornata Inoue, 1972 (south-eastern Russia, Japan, Korean Peninsula, China: Shaanxi)
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyploca nigropunctata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- Sick, 1941, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 1941: 5.
- Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
- A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
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