Nymphula nitidulata
Species of moth
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Nymphula nitidulata, the beautiful china-mark, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767. It is found in Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Turkey, Armenia, Russia (including Ural, Siberia, Amur) and China.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Nymphula |
| Species: | N. nitidulata |
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| Nymphula nitidulata | |
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The wingspan is 20–25 mm. The forewings are white; costal edge and sometimes a subcostal line dark fuscous; a curved dark fuscous subbasal line; lines and transverse discal spots strongly outlined with dark fuscous, sometimes partly brownish, first curved, second indented below middle, connected by a prolongation with discal spot and first line, lines sometimes also connected on dorsum; a yellow-ochreous dark-margined terminal streak. Hindwings as forewings, but lines narrower, not connected, subbasal absent, discal mark oblique, narrow, dark fuscous, usually touching first line The larva is bright yellow or brownish-yellow; dorsalline dark brownish; head pale brown.[3]
The larvae feed on Sparganium and Nuphar lutea.
