Poloma nigromaculata is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]
Poloma nigromaculata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Poloma |
Species: | P. nigromaculata |
Binomial name | |
Poloma nigromaculata (Aurivillius, 1893) | |
Synonyms | |
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Description edit
The forewings are dark smoky brown, palest along the outer margin and crossed beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin by two fine waved dark brown lines. There are three small angular-shaped black spots close to the apex. The hindwings are pale brownish fawn, darkest at the base and along the inner margin and with two fine brown lines across the wing below the middle, extending from the apex to the inner margin.[3]
References edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Poloma nigromaculata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Poloma nigromaculata (Aurivillius, 1893)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ Druce, H. 1896. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical Africa. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)17(101): p. 354 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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