Polydesma boarmoides

Polydesma boarmoides is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. The species is found from the Indo-Australian tropics east from Sri Lanka, to Australia, Myanmar, Fiji and New Caledonia. It has also been recorded from the Marianas, Carolines, Society Islands and Hawaii.

Polydesma boarmoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Polydesma
Species:
P. boarmoides
Binomial name
Polydesma boarmoides
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Polydesma mastrucata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

The larvae, characterized by D. G. Sevastopulo for the "dark brown head with a pale, inverted V-mark", feed on the bark and foliage of Acacia, Albizia and Pithecellobium species.[1] The body of the moth has a creamy ground liberally mottled with streaks and dots of both dark and pale brown.

Pupation takes place in a cocoon made of white silk resembling paper.

References

  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 7 Macrolepidoptera. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7336.
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