Netria viridescens
Appearance
Netria viridescens | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Notodontidae |
Genus: | Netria |
Species: | N. viridescens
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Binomial name | |
Netria viridescens Walker, 1855
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Netria viridescens is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found from the Oriental Tropics to New Guinea.
The wingspan is 66–87 mm.[1][2]
The larvae only feed on young leaves of Bassia, Mimusops, Sideroxylon and Achras sapota.
Subspecies
[edit]- Netria viridescens viridescens (Java, Bali, Sundaland to New Guinea)
- Netria viridescens continentalis Schintlmeister, 2006 (north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Myanmar, southern China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand)
- Netria viridescens pallidabasis Schintlmeister, 2006 (Palawan)
- Netria viridescens suffusca Schintlmeister, 2006 (China: Yunnan)
References
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