Europlema desistaria is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Borneo, Sulawesi, Flores and Queensland.[2][3]

Europlema desistaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Uraniidae
Genus:	Europlema
Species:	E. desistaria
Binomial name
Europlema desistaria (Walker, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
Erosia desistaria Walker, 1861 Epiplema desistaria Erosia inclarata Walker, 1866 Erosia insolita Walker, 1866 Epiplema instabilata fuscata Warren, 1897 Epiplema fuscata Dalla Torre, 1924

Description

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Its forewings have an evenly curved outer margin. Its hindwings have slight tails at veins 4 and 7. Its head and collar are fuscous. Its thorax and the first segment of its abdomen are white. Its other segments are fuscous. Its forewings are thickly speckled and striated with brown, fulvous and black, the inner area white slightly marked with fuscous. There is a white spot on the cilia. Its hindwings have a white costal area, while the rest of the wing is fulvous and striated with black. The outline between the two areas is very irregular. A laden grey marginal line can be seen from the tail at vein 7 to anal angle.[4]

Adults have a complex wing pattern consisting of shades of brown. There is a ragged white inner margin on each forewing and along the costa of each hindwing.[5]

References

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