Micraloa lineola is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. It is found in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.[1]
| Micraloa lineola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Micraloa |
| Species: | M. lineola
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| Binomial name | |
| Micraloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)
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In, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II, the species is described with Micraloa emittens, as follows:
Antennae of male bipectinate, serrate in female. Head and thorax pinkish ochreous. Abdomen crimson above with series of dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous. A black fascia below median nervure from before the middle of cell to some way beyond its lower angle, the veins crossing it pale; a black sunmarginal streak above vein 5. Hind wing whitish, some specimens with a black spots at end of cell. The S.Indian and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) forms emittens and flora are much suffused with pink than the Northern forms; in the former the markings of the fore wing are prominent, in the latter obsolete or only developed at end of cell. Of the Northern forms, diminutus has the markings prominent; candidulus narrow or almost obsolete; puntistriga with a speck at end of cell and streak above vein 5 only.[2]
References edit
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Aloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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