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Fodina pallula is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1] It is found in India[2] and Sri Lanka.[3]

Fodina pallula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Fodina
Species:	F. pallula
Binomial name
Fodina pallula Guenée, 1852

Adults are robust and the wings strikingly marked. Forewings are dark brownish with an oblique white bar dividing them from the center of the costa to the tornus. A finely banded pale brown to whitish marginal zone can be seen. Hindwings are usually yellow with a dark brown border that is broadest around the apex. Antennae filiform (thread like) in males. The caterpillar is pale greenish with paradorsal white lines and some dorsal white spots. Pupation is in the soil made in a thin cocoon. Pupa lacks a bloom. Caterpillars are known to feed on Holarrhena, Tabernaemontana and Vallaris solanacea.[4][5]

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