Naarda huettleri

Naarda huettleri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Balázs Tóth and László Aladár Ronkay in 2015. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Naarda huettleri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Naarda
Species:
N. huettleri
Binomial name
Naarda huettleri
Tóth & Ronkay, 2015

The adult wingspan is 11 mm. Forewings and hindwings are dark brownish gray in colour. Transverse line indistinct. Light yellowish reniform stigma is semilunar with large black spot at the bottom half. Orbicular stigma yellowish. In males, genitalia is uncus short and hooked. Saccus broad based. Juxta large, rounded triangular.[2]

References

  1. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 via Academia.
  2. "Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental species of the genus Naarda Walker, 1866 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Hypeninae). Part 2. Description of ten new species from Asia". Zootaxa. Retrieved 28 June 2018.


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