Nyctemera tripunctaria

Nyctemera tripunctaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Nyctemera
Species:	N. tripunctaria
Binomial name
*Nyctemera tripunctaria* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Phalaena Geometra tripunctaria Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena petulca Linnaeus, 1768 Nyctemera atralba Hübner, [1820] Nyctemera perconfusa Roepke, 1948 [1949] Deilemera aequimargo Rothschild, 1920 Nyctemera tripunctaria elzuniaekruscheae Bryk, 1937 Leptosoma assimile Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863 Leptosoma confusum Swinhoe, 1892 Leptosoma kondekum Swinhoe, 1892 Deilemera coequalis Swinhoe, 1915 Deilemera absurdum strictifascia Rothschild, 1915 Nyctemera celsa Walker, 1864 Nyctemera tripunctaria candidissima Seitz, 1915 Nyctemera cydippe Weymer, 1885 Deilemera niasana Swinhoe, 1906 Deilemera optata Swinhoe, 1903 Deilemera lombokiana Swinhoe, 1903 Nyctemera floresicola Roepke, 1954 Nyctemera subvelata Walker, 1864 Nyctemera velans Walker, 1864 Leptosoma infuscata Hopffer, 1874

Nyctemera tripunctaria is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in southern China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sundaland, the Philippines and on Sulawesi.^[1]

Adults are day-flying.^[2]

Subspecies

Nyctemera tripunctaria tripunctaria
Nyctemera tripunctaria aequimargo (Rothschild, 1920)
Nyctemera tripunctaria assimile (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863) (Java)
Nyctemera tripunctaria celsa Walker, 1864 (Cambodia, southern China)
Nyctemera tripunctaria cydippe Weymer, 1885 (Nias)
Nyctemera tripunctaria lombokiana (Swinhoe, 1903)
Nyctemera tripunctaria simalura Roepke, 1957 (Simalur Island)
Nyctemera tripunctaria subvelata Walker, 1864 (Sulawesi)

References

Vos, de R. & Černý, K. 1999: A review of the Philippine species of the genus Nyctemera Hubner, [1820] with descriptions of new species and subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Nyctemerinae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 20 (2): 133-188.

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