Micraloa emittens
Species of moth
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Micraloa emittens is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
| Micraloa emittens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Micraloa |
| Species: | M. emittens |
| Binomial name | |
| Micraloa emittens (Walker, 1855) | |
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In The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II, the species described with Micraloa lineola, as follows:
Antennae of male bipectinate, serrate in female. Head and thorax pinkish ochreous. Abdomen crimson above with series of dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous. A black fascia below median nervure from before the middle of cell to some way beyond its lower angle, the veins crossing it pale; a black sunmarginal streak above vein 5. Hind wing whitish, some specimens with a black spots at end of cell. The S.Indian and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) forms emittens and flora are much suffused with pink than the Northern forms; in the former the markings of the fore wing are prominent, in the latter obsolete or only developed at end of cell. Of the Northern forms, diminutus has the markings prominent; candidulus narrow or almost obsolete; puntistriga with a speck at end of cell and streak above vein 5 only.[1]
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