Polylopha epidesma
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tortricidae |
Genus: | Polylopha |
Species: | P. epidesma
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Polylopha epidesma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901.[2] It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Australia.[3]
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ashy-grey whitish, mixed with greenish leaden, and strewn with numerous tufts of ashy-grey scales, which become blackish posteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous, but lighter on the basal half.[4] Its larval food plant is Polyalthia longifolia.[5]
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- ^ Tortricidae.com
- ^ "Species Details: Polylopha epidesma Lower, 1901". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News (79). Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara: 1–57 – via Academia.
- ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
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- ^ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.