Neoploca

Neoploca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Neoploca
Matsumura, 1927
Species: N. arctipennis
Binomial name
Neoploca arctipennis
(Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Xylina arctipennis Butler, 1878
  • Asphalia nigrofascicula Graesser, 1888
  • Polyploca arctipennis ab. innotata Warren, in Seitz 1912
  • Neoploca misaona Matsumura, 1933

Neoploca is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae. It contains only one species, Neoploca arctipennis, which is found in Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and China (Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Jiangsu).[1]

The wingspan is 35-38 mm.[2] The forewings are silvery grey, the base, a central irregular black edged band, a transverse discal stripe and the outer border are rather paler and greyer than the rest of the wing. There is a black dot at the interior angle of the cell, a disco-submarginal series, a series of marginal black lunules and a short oblique black apical line. The hindwings are shining sordid white, with a broad, pale brown external border.[3]

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.[4]

References

  1. Jiang, N., Yang, C., Xue, D-Y. & Han, H-X. 2015: An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species. zootaxa 2015 3941.
  2. Japanese Moths
  3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1878: Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 1878
  4. A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East
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