Nycteola poliophaea is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1907.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka[2] and India.
Nycteola poliophaea | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Nolidae |
Genus: | Nycteola |
Species: | N. poliophaea |
Binomial name | |
Nycteola poliophaea (Hampson, 1907) | |
Its forewings are pale gray with zigzag, antemedial and postmedial fasciae. There is a dark tooth visible from the sub-basal which extends to the antemedial. Its larval food plant is Eugenia.[3]