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Epipsestis nigropunctata

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Epipsestis nigropunctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Epipsestis
Species: E. nigropunctata
Binomial name
Epipsestis nigropunctata
(Sick, 1941)
Synonyms
  • Polyploca nigropunctata Sick, 1941
  • Epipsestis perornata sicki Yoshimoto, 1988

Epipsestis nigropunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in China, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku), Korea, the Russian Far East and Nepal.

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.

Subspecies

  • Epipsestis nigropunctata nigropunctata (Nepal, China: Yunnan)
  • Epipsestis nigropunctata perornata Inoue, 1972 (south-eastern Russia, Japan, Korean Peninsula, China: Shaanxi)

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Polyploca nigropunctata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. Sick, 1941, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 1941: 5.
  3. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
  4. A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
Taxon identifiers
Epipsestis nigropunctata


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