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Nyctemera calcicola

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Nyctemera calcicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Nyctemera
Species:
N. calcicola
Binomial name
Nyctemera calcicola
Holloway, 1988

Nyctemera calcicola is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1988. It is found on Borneo.[1] The habitat consists of upper montane forest on limestone.

The length of the forewings is 23–25 mm and the forewings are black.

The larvae possibly feed on Senecio species.[2]

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