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Nyctemera
Sign in to saveNyctemera is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The genus includes the species Nyctemera annulata and Nyctemera amica, which are closely related and are able to interbreed.
Species
Asian Magpie Moth
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyErebidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, NMV, FMNH, MZLU, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Australia, Congo, New Guinea, India, Philippines, Madagascar, South Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Description
- Ecology
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Subgenus ''Arctata'' Roepke, 1949
- Subgenus ''Coleta'' Roepke, 1949
- Subgenus ''Deilemera'' Hübner, [1820], 1816
- Subgenus ''Luctuosana'' de Vos, 2010
- Subgenus ''Nyctemera'' s.str.
- The ''Nyctemera'' (''Nyctemera'') ''clathrata'' species group
- Subgenus ''Orphanos'' Hübner, [1825], 1816
- Subgenus ''Tritomera'' de Vos & Dubatolov, 2010
- Unsorted ''Nyctemera'' species
- Afrotropical species transferred into ''Afronyctemera'' Dubatolov, 2006
- Afrotropical species transferred into ''Chiromachla'' Strand, 1909
- Afrotropical species transferred into ''Podomachla'' Strand, 1909
- Afrotropical species transferred into ''Xylecata'' Swinhoe, 1904
- Main articles on ''Nyctemera'' taxonomy
- References
- External links
Nyctemera is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The genus includes the species Nyctemera annulata and Nyctemera amica, which are closely related and are able to interbreed.
==Description== They are medium-sized moths, the adults having a wingspan of . The wings are usually dark with lighter patches, while the body is often aposematically coloured to discourage birds and other visual predators from eating them.
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