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Polydesma boarmoides is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. The species is found from the Indo-Australian tropics east from Sri Lanka, to Australia, Fiji and New Caledonia. It has also been recorded from the Marianas, Carolines, Society Islands and Hawaii.

Polydesma boarmoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Polydesma
Species:	P. boarmoides
Binomial name
Polydesma boarmoides Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
Polydesma mastrucata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

The larvae, characterized by D. G. Sevastopulo for the "dark brown head with a pale, inverted V-mark", feed on the bark and foliage of Acacia, Albizia and Pithecellobium species.[1] The body of the moth has a creamy ground liberally mottled with streaks and dots of both dark and pale brown.

Pupation takes place in a cocoon made of white silk resembling paper.

References

External links

• Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 7 Macrolepidoptera. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7336.

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